War profits tax on LNG exports immediately, please.
08.03.2026 06:23
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War profits tax on LNG exports immediately, please.
War profits tax, now!
We need a war profits tax on LNG exports immediately.
With the #LNG price soaring, Australia should immediately impose a war profits tax on exporters. Not a single unearned cent should swell their coffers even further. Part of the revenue should be earmarked for a Middle East reconstruction fund. @davidpocock.bsky.social @davidshoebridge.bsky.social
Heh, Zack, your visualisations are top-notch. Don't apologise for taking time to make them even better!
I have the misfortune to have Sen Malcolm Roberts as one of my reps up here in Qld. He's One Nation, not LNP, and he is profoundly and incessantly dishonest in his absurd climate denialism.
I've had a sympathetic view of Penny Wong, but her recent performance and Labor's pusillanimous approach to this "Board" completely dissolves all that. What weakness and indecisiveness this shows.
One of the most irritating anti-renewable tropes in Australia is that "China and India should so more because we only produce 1% of emissions". If Oz and those emitting even less were all off the hook, that comes to well over 20% - not far short of China's share and nearly three times India's.
Indeed - basically adopt the Greens housing policies instead of slagging them endlessly.
Yep. Courier Nail covered it in <2/3 of a single inside column, devoting front page, two inside pages, a cartoon and multiple letters to the evidently far more dangerous burning of a small flag on the same day.
Would prob aid recruitment if civil relief in Oz and region was seen as a major role of Defence. Let's apply some of the AUKUS. savings to a substantial defence update/overhaul!
Reverse current doctrine that downplays emergency peace time relief operations - what more realistic training can there possibly be than rapid deployment of comms and logistics support in disasters?
Focus military hardware acquisition on capacity to move people and gear rapidly at scale by sea land and air (for defence and relief ops),
Like commenter @itsonlydale.bsky.social , it's high time to pair the Greens Aukus rejection with a fresh look at Australia's security and defence - urgent civilian logistics/transport fleet electrification to reduce vulnerability to oil blockades,
Absolutely reasonable. Gun law update now, the rest needs very careful scrutiny. I read the whole law but didn't even get to the explanatory notes, and to rush this through next week would not even allow those few public comments that squeezed in to be read, let alone thought about.
I don't know how this response to an entirely proper question plays in Tennessee, but I can tell you how much Trump's spokesperson is trashing the esteem the US used to enjoy down here in Oz.
Thanks Larissa - I'm concerned about restricting the "reasonable person" test to a person of that (or ANY) group. This could end up being driven by perceptions and influences that don't fully accord with the facts. A 'reasonable person' should be just that. Support not passing it as is.
"Commenting will be reopened again on Monday morning." I reckon people know what they need to do.
Finished yr book a few days before & now heard the podcast. Two thoughts. 1. Some common ground emerging on the desirability of developing high yield regen ag; 2. Adam pretty much failed to give a proper (quantitative) response to yr basic point about the imbalanced 'production/yield/land' equation!
Deplete quicker when younger than older... surely?
...An average query is said to use 0.3 watt-hours, so that’s 30 MWh of demand, about the output of a single small-medium gas turbine."
Ketan... Could you pls engage with @johnquiggin.bsky.social on this? Could be an informative dialogue! "Can someone check my arithmetic, please. I saw recently that ChatGPT gets 2.5 billion queries per day. Rounding slightly down that’s 100 million queries per hour.
You've done it now, Richard. I'd rather go round saying "six-seven" than have to initiate such full-scale neural restructuring.
Good takes on IEA report, and some good questions, too. Scheduled for 30 mins, went for an hour, could have gone longer...
Looking forward to her statement on the neo-Nazi gathering outside the NSW Parliament.
What a profound failure of imagination and principle for Labor to back in this utterly wrong-headed AUKUS business.
Please pass this on to the Labor Political Party!
Yes, this story is a thing of beauty! PM dragged in, story spreading everywhere and the boot definitely ends up on Pocock's foot with his conditions for rejoining. A true bright spot in the day!
Chris - I adjust my late afternoon walk length to the show's duration - this episode will literally as well as metaphorically take me to places I've never been!
