David Pocock
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640 appearances
7 recordings
5 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5 Jul
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And then, as I said, these industries that carry these big sticks and they say, listen, if you do this, you know what's going to happen.
And I think half the challenge is how do we...
make it so that politicians are more afraid of the public, the people that they're meant to be working for, than they are of an industry that's really made up of these big multinational companies that have had it very good for a long time.
The one part of the argument that I want to have some sympathy for the government, although I don't think it quite stacks up, is the argument around the current fuel security issues.
And they say, well, Japan and South Korea won't sell us fuel.
Malaysia will be unhappy.
In this gas Senate inquiry, it was very clear from a couple of the witnesses, I think Chevron and Inpex, they said, listen, we're price takers, we don't set the price.
And so what you can read from that is that a 25 cent gas export tax would be absorbed by the companies that essentially be paying us for the gas.
Japan would still get the same amount of gas at the same price, but INPEX would just have to pay us.
And I think the reason why Japan and South Korea are jumping up and down about this is because they both have fairly big stakes in companies that are exploiting Australian gas.
So you look at – Japan's a great example.
I think a 20% or 30% stake in INPEX, so they make a lot of money there.
Impex, until very recently, had basically got all of its gas for free, no petroleum resource rent tax.
So they're shipping that and making good profit.
The gas hits Japan.
They have a gas import tax.
So they're copping some revenue there.
They've apparently used that to build 90 days of liquid fuel storage.
Pretty smart.
And now they're exporting gas.
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