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It was a video that went viral and left viewers outraged.

In it, it's revealed the government receives more money from a tax on beer than from the tax on the profits of massive oil and gas projects.

Today, the ABC's chief digital political correspondent, Claire Armstrong, on the growing campaign for a new gas tax.

I'm Sam Hawley on Gadigal land in Sydney.

This is ABC News Daily.

Claire, let's start by discussing this social media video that, well, it had many, many views.

Now, in it, independent Senator David Pocock is quizzing Treasury officials about tax.

So just tell me what goes on.

And then this is an idea that's sort of pushed along, Claire, by former teacher Conrad Benjamin, who's founded Hunter's Politics.

Now, he actually appeared before a Senate inquiry the Greens had set up into a gas tax.

And Ken Henry, the former Treasury Secretary, well, he thinks it's a fabulous idea and he's really passionate about it, isn't he?

So everyone's got a bit riled up at this point.

But look, let's put it into some more context as well, Claire, because the oil and gas companies, they do pay other taxes as well, right, and state royalties.

Clare, the Australia Institute, that's a progressive think tank, it's one of the leading advocates for a new gas tax, a 25% gas tax.

Now, its head, Richard Dennis, points out that Qatar...

that exports a similar amount of gas as us collects five times the amount of government revenue from its exports.