Mark Ogge

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.
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The last stop on the train line of Australia’s social failures: Tales of a homelessness case worker on the NSW South Coast Life as a homelessness case worker is brutal. You often feel like the last stop on the train line of our country’s social failures. Hardest of all is knowing that people aren’t helped as well as they ...

Policy analysis from actual homelessness case worker.

Proud to have helped with this piece.
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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!
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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.

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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👇

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. @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

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The Albanese Government’s constant justification for approving new gas projects is we need gas to “firm renewables.”

Well, good news… turn out we don’t!

So @australianlabor.bsky.social you can stop approving new gas projects.

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If you think coal and gas corporates like Woodside, Chervron, INPEX and Glencore, who are fuelling these disasters should pay the costs…instead of YOU!

Support @ausinstitutearchi.bsky.social call for a Climate Disaster Levy on fossil fuel exports👇

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When Victoria burns again this week, understand a handful of global fossil fuel gas executives are getting very rich making Australia hotter, drier and more flammable

Time we made them pay

Sign our petition for a disaster levy on fossil fuel exports

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The Albanese Government has decided to risk Victoria's 90 Mile beach so foreign owned gas corporations can explore for gas.

It will be almost entirely FOR EXPORT and our Government will give them the gas FOR FREE.

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While we're being told there isn't enough Australian gas for Australians, Japan is making billions selling our gas to other countries!

Japan is reselling more Australian gas than is used in Victoria, NSW, QLD, Tasmania, SA, and the NT COMBINED!
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If you think the fossil fuel corporations trashing our climate should pay for the damage they cause... instead of YOU!

Support our call for a Climate Disaster Levy on fossil fuel exports.
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If you think the fossil fuel corporations trashing our climate should pay for the damage they cause... instead of YOU!

Support our call for a Climate Disaster Levy on fossil fuel exports.
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/climatedisas...

Watered-down superannuation reform to go back to Parliament Superannuation is supposed to be for retirement. Unfortunately, it has become like Australia’s own internal tax haven and inheritance scheme for wealthy people.

Great piece on tax & inequality by Mark Zirnsak from @taxjustice.net @unitingchurchau.bsky.social

"tax breaks are a big deal. They gave away $18.65 B of revenue in 22-23, as much as the Federal Gov spends on public schools or on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme."

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More and more you can’t play outdoor sports without fear of heatstroke, you can’t go camping for fear of fires etc etc

Fossil fuel corporates like Santos are destroying everything we love about living in Australia…and laundering their image with sponsorships.

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The Australian Government's own Gas Market Review finds Australians face gas shortages because that very same Australian Government allows multinational gas corporations to export 4X more gas than Australia uses every year.

Oh, and they give them most of it FOR FREE.

Do you dump your rubbish in the ocean off the great ocean road?

Woodside does.

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'Horse has bolted' on cheap gas, even with reservation Businesses and households want cheaper gas but it remains unclear how effective a plan to reserve more supply...

Every year, Australian governments let gas companies export enough gas to supply Australians for 4 years

They export the easier to extract, low cost gas, leaving us with high cost gas

Gas exports drain our affordable reserves, and that gas is never coming back

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Miners exaggerating tax. Again.

What's new is that this is so demonstrably false.

Will they take down false ads? If you see this ad after today, please let me know.

Debunked on @thepointau.bsky.social here, more below: thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...

Hey young Aussies.

The government wants rents and house prices to keep rising to keep the boomers and Xers who own multiple properties sweet.

You’re own your own, sorry.

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Cut the public service and don’t tax the gas industry.

Good they’re clear about the priorities I guess…

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Will the government really introduce a gas reservation scheme that won’t work to appease the gas industry?

"No other jurisdiction allows foreign companies to come in, write the rules, export the gas and give you nothing in return."

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So instead of requiring gas exporters to supply gas to Australian manufacturers at reasonable prices, the cost would be transferred to taxpayers.

Let’s gas cartel keep price gouging Australians, and taxpayers foot the bill.

Really!?!

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Chart showing on the East Coast of Australia, 511PJ of gas is consumed, while Japan on sells 812PJ of Australian gas a year

A reminder Japan on-sells more Australian gas to other countries than is consumed on the entire East Coast of Australia.

We don't need *more* gas, we need to tax our gas exports properly

A shit tonne of gas exports

Fuck all revenue from the PRRT

The Albanese govt is considering an East Coast gas reservation policy. And ok... but how about putting a 25% tax of gas exports so we stop giving it away for free?

The big reason electricity cost so much is gas. Gas is the most expensive form of electricity generation (aside from battery) and yet often determines the price.

Tax gas exports, raise $17bn, help compensate households and also fund the transition to zero emissions

I've been on bsky for a year
I've been saying all year
We don't need new gas
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The gas industry’s charade is over.

Australians know we have plenty of gas and excessive exports are the problem.

72% of Australians realise cutting exports is the way bring down energy bills, and just 28% think we need new gas fields.

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NSW Farmers pointing out the obvious fact that Australian politicians seem unable to grasp.