Mark Ogge

The coal lobby's latest nonsense economics report is due out tomorrow. Coal Australia claims 782,000 jobs. ABS says 40,000 🤔

It’s going to be fun times on Australia this summer. When your place is burning down remember the @albomp.bsky.social government has approved some of the biggest new fossil fuel export projects in the world.

Given Penny Wong’s tremendous support for international law, I’m expecting a strong condemnation any moment now. x.com/AlArabiya_En...

So funny. The ALP National Conference statement on gas tax: “Labor will ensure that the Australian people *receive a fairer return* from their natural resources including through appropriate taxation arrangements...blah blah blah' So if they raise an extra $5...mission success!

The Australian Government should be trying to get the best deal it can for Australians when selling our natural resources. Instead, over half of the gas we export is given away for free! #auspol @markogge.bsky.social

Faced with a gas reservation policy, the Big Gas exporters who have spent the last decade whipping up fear of a gas shortage now say supplying more gas will mean the Australian gas market is oversupplied. Great to confirm we don’t need more drilling! thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Great news! Australia's local governments have voted overwhelmingly to make foreign owned fossil fuel exporters pay for the costs of damage to the climate they are causing Instead of ratepayers! au.news.yahoo.com/polluter-pai...

The same day top mining lobbyist Tania Constable claimed @australiainstitute.org.au criticisms of the government’s safeguard mechanism were “ridiculous" ....turns out the government paid foreign owned gas exporter/ tax cheat - Shell $90m free carbon offsets despite INCREASING it’s emissions

The Albanese government just gave $90 million dollars of taxpayers money to foreign owned gas giant, shocking polluter and notorious tax avoider Shell for doing NOTHING. www.afr.com/policy/energ...

Every time the Albanese government approves a new coal mine, Aussie taxpayers pay for free diesel for foreign owned coal corporations. … on top of destroying farmland, aquifers and the climate. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Your daily reminder how much revenue the Albanese Government has NOT collected from foreign own gas corporations who get most of our gas they export FOR FREE. $72 billion. Thats $6,600 every Australian household missed out on. Sad day for you Aussies. gas.australiainstitute.org.au

Did you know the QLD Government lets foreign owned gas giant and notorious tax avoider Shell frack some of QLD’s best cropping land, causing land to subside making it unusable and causing water tables to fall? Your politicians are in the pocket of Big Gas. www.thechronicle.com.au/subscribe/ne...

NT governments climate plan is to destroy the climate. Making the NT hotter, drier and Territorians lives WORSE. All for bugger all jobs or taxes. Just grifters making their mates rich instead of improving the lives of Territorians. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

The corporate press know their take is BS. They just lie continually because they are gas industry glove puppets. Even if some of this gas does go to households (unlikely) it just means more gas from other fields is exported. It’s a shell game. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Huge amounts of land we could have built housing, will drive up house prices, electricity prices, and waste vast amounts of water. SFA jobs or taxes… just to make foreign tech giants rich. There is no one our political class won’t sell us out to. www.nine.com.au/australia-ne...

Foreign owned gas giant INPEX gets all the gas FOR FREE, exports all of it, doesn’t pay PRRT, very little corporate tax, and is cashing in on skyrocketing global gas prices… … but just can’t afford to pay its workers properly 🤷 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Santos, the company that deliberately caused the east coast gas crisis to gouge Australians for $ billions, leaks oil and gas leaks all over the place and hasn’t paid corporate tax for a decade.. … what could possibly go wrong!?! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Why does the Australian Government prioritise foreign owned gas corporations over Australians? Japanese gas giant INPEX: - exports more gas than NSW, Vic and SA use combined - pays no royalties or petroleum tax - pays virtually no corporate tax australiainstitute.org.au/report/big-g...

Great piece on how Aus coal and gas decisions impact Asian countries. NSW stopped coal mines. Korea will end coal sooner. Feat Solutions for Our Climate in @newcastleherald.bsky.social www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/920499...

Will the Government keep letting Big Gas take the piss? www.news.com.au/finance/econ...

Hey Australians If the Albanese Government hadn't been letting the gas industry rip us off since 2022, we could have had: 💰Free TAFE and university, or 💰Free universal childcare, or 💰$2,500 each Bummer! australiainstitute.org.au/report/we-ha...

WELD Australia CEO Geoff Crittenden adds his voice to support for a 25% tax on gas exports. "If a 25% tax on gas exports gives us $17 billion a year to invest, then the real question is not whether we can afford to act. It’s whether we can afford not to." thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

WELD Australia CEO joins the ACTU, Greens, One Nation, David Pocock, leading economist Chris Richardson, fmr ACCC Chair Rob Simms, The Australia Institute......and most Australians ....supporting big new taxes on the gas industry! thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Subsidies to mining companies growing faster than the NDIS, child care, aged care. Australian gov fossil fuel subsidies now at $30,000 every minute of every day. Great piece on @australiainstitute.org.au latest research www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This conflict is likely to drive global gas prices through the roof. Because the Australian Government gives most of our the gas to Big Gas exporters for free, and the PRRT is broken, Big Gas will make massive windfall profits and Australians will get virtually nothing.

Economist Chris Richardson on the PRRT "We made a mistake in the economics as we set it up and, as it changed from oil to gas, that mistake became a fatal mistake." That was 38 YEARS AGO...our governments have been literally giving our gas away ever since www.canberratimes.com.au/story/918833...

Finally an Australian Parliamentary inquiry proposed into why Australian governments have been giving away Australia's gas to multinational gas corporations FOR FREE. Will the major parties who have been giving the gas away for decades support it? thepoint.com.au/news/260303-...

Not only does the Australian Government give Japanese gas export giant Inpex all the gas it exports from Darwin FOR FREE, and lets them pay virtually no tax... Inpex "systematically underestimated' by 40X leaks of cancer causing benzene near Darwin. Consequences? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

I came across this Woodside CEO recruitment video. youtube.com/watch?v=zhok... You may want to assist them in finding a suitable candidate by reposting!

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Talk about ART OF THE DEAL! SA Premier Malinauskas lands deal for SA taxpayers to pay over $12 GJ for gas Santos sells to Korea for probably about $6. What’s not to love !?!?…(if you’re Santos) www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-a...

OK, so now virtually all the Independents, the Greens and One Nation support taxing the gas industry more in line with the majority of Australian voters. Only Labor and the Coalition seem happy ignore voters and let Big Gas keep ripping Australians off. thepoint.com.au/news/260226-...

Independent Senator David Pocock has added his voice to calls for a 25% tax on gas exports. @markogge.bsky.social explains why Australia taxes beer more effectively than its gas exports. Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4qOyo05

Japan is on-selling even more gas than it imports from Australia … at a profit! Gas that our government mostly GIVES THEM FOR FREE They now on-sell 1.7X more gas than they import from Australia. Meanwhile Aussies left short and paying through the nose. ieefa.org/resources/ja...

Great to see the PM sticking up for those plucky little foreign owned gas multinationals making $ gazillions exporting Aussie gas our government gives them for free Against mean (but true) allegations that the pay less tax than Aussie beer drinkers! www.facebook.com/reel/2569953...

Do beer drinkers pay more tax than gas companies? Yes, they do! Beer excise > PRRT Beer drinkers' income tax > gas company income tax Thread below, full details here: australiainstitute.org.au/report/tax-b...

The Albanese Government just approved another huge coal mine- that will make Australia hotter, drier and cause more frequent and extreme disasters. 236 million tonnes of emissions over its life = double Australia's annual emissions, 1200x Vanuatu. www.lockthegate.org.au/middlemount-...

The Albanese Government just approved another huge coal mine- that will make Australia hotter, drier and cause more frequent and extreme disasters. 236 million tonnes of emissions over its life = double Australia's annual emissions, 1200x Vanuatu. www.lockthegate.org.au/middlemount-...

Policy analysis from actual homelessness case worker. Proud to have helped with this piece. thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

While coal and gas companies are making millions in profits from burning fossil fuels, it's our communities footing the bill for climate disasters. A climate disaster levy would make polluters pay for the damage they cause! @markogge.bsky.social #auspol

If the our government doesn’t do the same, Australian families will be left with massive insurance costs, while the fossil fuel corporates make $billions. Support the @ausinstitutearchi.bsky.social Climate Disaster Levy on fossil fuel exports. nb.australiainstitute.org.au/climatedisas...

This should be a major scandal.

Global fossil fuel corporates like Woodside, Chevron, Glencore, Exxon and BHP are making Australia hotter, drier and wrecking your life. Fully backed by our governments. Support @australiainstitute.org.au call to make them pay👇 nb.australiainstitute.org.au/climatedisas...

. @australianlabor.bsky.social is approving massive new fossil fuel projects like Woodside’s North West Shelf, making Australia hotter and ruining your life. Oh… and it won’t stop at 50C www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...