Mark Ogge

The gas “crisis” is “not because we don’t have enough gas, but because the gas that comes from beneath Australian soil is prioritised for customers offshore rather than customers onshore”.

Spot on.

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The Boomer generation didn’t just "shape society" they strip-mined it.
Free uni, cheap housing, stable jobs… then they voted to burn it all down.
Now they clutch their assets while younger generations inherit debt, precarity and a collapsing planet.
History will not be kind.
#ClimateCrisis #degrowth

Honestly, it would be absurd for Australia to host COP31.

Australia has 3X per capita emissions of Turkey, is a massive fossil fuel exporter and just approved a 50-year extension of Woodside’s North Shelf, one of the worst fossil fuel exports projects in the world.

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Meanwhile Australia opens massive new fossil fuel export projects with vastly more emissions than all the pacific states combined.

Australia is an out-of-contol petrostate, drowning its Pacific neighbours, and should not be allowed to host COP31.

Australia should be disqualified from hosting the international climate conference (COP31)

Australia's emissions per person are 3X rival bidder Turkiye, and Australia is a massive fossil fuel exporter.

Australia is an out-of-control petrostate using COP31 to launder its image.

Well, you’ve got to give @walabor.bsky.social credit for consistency in doctoring reports they commission that don’t support their claims about gas exports.

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It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.

Good question.

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The WA gov spent $400k on a report from scandal ridden Deloitte to say gas exports are good for the climate.

But even Deloitte (who let’s face it would say almost anything they are paid to) were like.. um.. yeh… maybe not…

So the government buried the report and just kept saying it anyway.

Imagine if we had a government that put the interests of Australians ahead of foreign owned gas corporations and other countries....
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Coal seam gas has turned tens of thousands of square kilometres of QLD into industrial gas fields.

For what?….export by foreign owned gas corporates who don’t even pay tax in Australia.

"Australians are getting ripped off by the gas industry," - Liam O'Brien, ACTU Assistant Secretary told the #RevenueSummit25

Analysis by The Australia Institute shows the ACTU's call for a 25% tax on revenue from gas exports would raise around $12.5 billion annually.

#auspol

The reason taxpayers are having to bail out Australia’s heavy industry is that our governments let Big Gas export 2/3 of our gas and price gouge us…for our own gas!

Gas exports have tripled wholesale gas prices and doubled electricity prices.

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Who is to blame? In energy, the answer is most likely always gas A report out today in the AFR suggests that “Australia’s biggest aluminium smelter, Tomago, has started a consultation process with employees on the plant’s potential closure”

Australian governments allowing the export of 80% of our gas is killing Australian manufacturing.

Gas exports have caused the cost of gas for Australia's manufacturers to double over the last decade and are the #1 cause of rising electricity prices.

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Why is Tomago in trouble?

Because @qldlabor.bsky.social and @australianlabor.bsky.social governments approved unconstrained gas exports, causing gas prices to triple and electricity prices to double.

Gas exports are an economic disaster for Australia.

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They will no longer pay dividends, they will pay compensation, and that will remove incentives to invest in and produce more.

Make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing, not ordinary Australians Climate change is making natural disasters like fires, floods, heatwaves and drought worse, costing Australians billions every year. Make fossil fuel producers pay a climate disaster levy to help pay...

If we don’t make coal and gas exporters pay the cost for disasters they are fuelling…. We will pay.

Support our climate disaster levy!

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Time the foreign owned coal, oil and gas corporates destroying our climate and making floods and fires worse started paying the costs

… instead of Aussie homeowners!

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Support our climate disaster levy on fossil fuel exports🧵👇

More disgrace for the Big Four organised crime syndicate.

It’s structural. Their whole business model is ripping off taxpayers.

Our governments need to end their feeding frenzy, and employ public servants.

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You may have thought the LNP would no longer dictate Australia’s climate policies.

But no.

The LNP “welcomed the government's decision to rule out a climate trigger "after sustained pressure".

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Trump and Albanese sign minerals deal, AUKUS endorsed and an awkward Rudd moment — as it happened US President Donald Trump has welcomed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to the White House, kicking off the first formal talks between the two leaders.

I wonder if the team that gives half our gas resources away for free every year has negotiated a good deal for Australia’s
critical minerals?

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There, fixed it

The big gas and oil companies have been having it their way for too long. We are calling for a 25% tax on gas exports. This would have raised $17.1 billion in the 2023-2024 financial year. Enough to build 50,000 new homes.

So when we, Australia, meet Trump next week do we give away our minerals as well. I’m not at all confident the govt can make a deal that is in our favour.

Good point!

Albanese urged to ‘secure the future of science’ as CSIRO reckons with ongoing decline in funding CEO Doug Hilton says the agency’s budget allocation ‘has not kept up with the cost of doing science’

To be fair

It’s hard to find the spare change for the CSIRO when you’re giving around half of Australia’s gas away royalty free to multinational gas export giants, and not making them pay PRRT.

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Adani denies claims it sold ‘below-market coal’ leading to Queensland missing out on hundreds of millions in royalties Adani has strongly rejected the Australia Institute’s findings, including that customers paid an average of $102 a tonne in 2022-23

My new report is out - Adani sold coal at mates rates to India, avoiding $400m in royalty payments to Queensland

...and Qld's LNP gov doesn't seem to care.

Thread below on how they did it.

Write up in @australia.theguardian.com
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screenshot of Minister watt's media release. Text captured says: Recognising Threatened Species Day 7 September 2025 Today is Threatened Species Day, an opportunity to acknowledge the risks to Australia’s unique species and the work being done across the country to help them recover and thrive. From tree plantings and weed removal to species specific mapping and monitoring using the latest conservation technology, countless individuals and organisations help every day to support and provide hope for threatened species. It’s not just the work happening on the ground – research is finding innovative solutions to stay ahead of the game in the fight against key threats like feral cats, invasive weeds and climate change.

“The Albanese Government is committed to no new extinctions” Environment Minister Murray Watt, reaffirming Labor’s 2022 pledge on Threatened Species Day 2025

2 weeks later Australia’s only shrew is declared extinct.
#auspol #climate @australiainstitute.org.au
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Our governments are already caving in to pressure from the gas industry to export our domestic gas reserves.

90% of WA's gas is exported or used for export.

We don't have a gas shortage problem. We have a gas export problem.

@markogge.bsky.social #auspol

In 2010, the Aus and QLD governments allowed a handful of multinational gas giants to begin massive exports of our gas — a decision that's making Australians poorer today.

‘Our gas prices tripled, then tripled again...electricity prices doubled as well.’

@markogge.bsky.social #auspol