David Pocock
speaker
640 appearances
7 recordings
5 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5 Jul
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And so for, I don't know how long now, a decade, we've been shipping oil
Huge amounts of gas and have basically got next to nothing in terms of PRT, which is what we're meant to get from the shipping of that gas.
Sure, some companies have paid corporate tax, but I just think this belongs to the Australian people.
This is a finite resource owned by us, not these multinationals.
We've got to have a mechanism to get a return.
Well, I think for once we actually have the gas industry on the back foot.
They are having to really justify how much tax they pay.
They're putting all sorts of inflated figures out there
Which is kind of what you expect, right?
This is a very powerful lobby group that clearly doesn't want to have to pay for the gas that they export because they make a lot of money doing that.
and have been for a long time now.
They know what they're doing.
They're advertising to a small audience of politicians and lobbyists who come to Canberra.
And we're now in this situation where I think the vast majority of Australians back something like a 25% gas export tax, both to get a return from our gas exports, but also to lower prices here in Australia.
We're in this ridiculous situation where we've got manufacturers and businesses going out of business
because they are paying more for our gas than companies in Japan are paying for our gas.
That's ridiculous.
So there's the pushback from industry.
You expect it.
They've got a lot of money.
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