Australia Is Plain Stupid As Gas Prices Roar!

[@whynotthisname2019]

Australia being considered one of the most corrupt countries is now a badge of honour by politicians to prove how dumb the citizens of Australia are 😅😅

[@Noddy2750]

Apparently Ukraine is the most corrupt country in the world !

[@MM-qq8eu]

Dumb,and far too compliant.

[@trg9765]

Yep & the voters keep voting 4 this OZ a country of SELF HARMERS 😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@beatricemarsh535]

Too much fluoride in the water.

[@grellis6483]

Our gas belongs to China. Not sure when when this was decided - must have been when Goggle Box was on... oh well...

[@brianmcdonald517]

I drilled holes for oil and gas in this country for 8yrs and 15 yrs offshore , Australia has no shortage of gas, we have a big shortage of good politicians

[@sportsfamily4569]

And shortage of common sense in population.

[@janinapalmer8368]

@@sportsfamily4569 So damn right..!!

[@tonykennedy1615]

"Good politicians". No such thing. Lol.

[@whitegum56]

Amen

[@johngeier8692]

We are currently beset with a few ridiculous and economically destructive popular delusions. Our current inept government is colluding with them.

[@petert6543]

Absolute clown world Australia is a laughing stock

[@vivrowe2763]

People are the problem these days

[@svetlana7904]

They do not care, well paid positions are waiting for them in those corpmafia companies afterwards, its a practice

[@yeahnah773]

It’s truly amazing the idea that Australia is not further up the corruption ladder.

[@Felix-s9z7i]

They bribed to them to move it further down 😂

[@MM-qq8eu]

They're working on it

[@cjod33]

When you're at the top how much further can you go?

[@jason_m2876]

Govt is gaslighting us about gas IMHO. 🤐

[@WalkTheWorldDFA]

Yes they are...

[@stufromoz8164]

lol very good, love ya work.

[@VHVHVHVH-m3s]

Aussies need to protest

[@AsttoScott]

Because they worked so well in the past. The time for protesting is done. They've been burning up everything all over the planet with lasers mounted on jumbo jets. What makes you think they're going to give a rats arse about a protest. They'll just send more coppers out with crowd control weapons again.

[@vivrowe2763]

That doesn't do a thing.

[@glennboyd939]

Vote out labour and liberal

[@baddaddy8718]

Waste of time to protest you need to visit your federal members offices. They need everything in writing in person is best way to deliver it as well as an email they work for us but they’ve gotten away with it for far too long. Don’t stop until they show up for an in person interview,remember, they work for you!

[@DownUndaDigga]

@@VHVHVHVH-m3s Protesting is very effective when it is a king hit PROTEST. Picture 3-4 thousand dedicated young Aussie citizens (very well behaved) converging on parliament house to gridlock parliament (in session) and NOT leaving until the PM himself gives categorical commitment to implement new gas laws that are Aussie friendly. National News,big uproar, manifest results. Just like the Teal blitz!!

[@SchmaymoDamo]

They're taking the piss out of us, gaslighting at its finest, no pun intended 😢

[@WalkTheWorldDFA]

Too true...

[@fatwombat2611]

Export everything, get sweet FA revenue. Pay the global price for it with a weakening currency. Yes we are stupid.

[@geoffreytoomey682]

Sadly, LNP leader Peter Dutton remains a UN puppet traitor to our nation like all his predecessors back to the bad old LABOR Whitlam and LNP Fraser days! When their decision to become just UN Puppets agreeing to the UN Lima declaration to sacrifice 30 of our industries and jobs to help China and other third world countries con job, that first treason lead to the now endemic TREASON in Federal, State Governments and Local and regional Councils becoming just the UN puppets for the WEF for the past 50 years This successful UN Paris accord and Climate Change is the WEFs wealth redistribution has nothing to do with Climate, to believe that the so called “RENEWABLES” (Green thingies are actually only “REPLACEABLE” but renewable sounds lovely to the sheeple) Can you possible imagen the cost of constantly replacing these REPLACABLES? And the cost of burying the old solar, wind turbine blades, batteries buried in the ground (a growth industry) totally replacing it all every 15 to 20 years? This Climate Change scam of Insanity is unsustainable! This is all about 50 years of LNP and LABOR POLITICIANS TREASON for the WEF global MONSTERS “Great Reset” and their UN Global Government by 2030. The Dictionary defines TREASON; “Treason” is when a person acts against his/her country. ... A treasonous person is called a TRAITOR! Outside the field of law, the word "traitor" can be used to describe a person who betrays a group to which he or she belongs!

[@richardfrantz8453]

Both sides of goverment don't seem to care

[@iainw5081]

Why should they as they have gold plated pensions and lots of 'opportunities' to enrich themselves.

[@eddiepiecart6030]

WE are giving away our resources so THEY can get great jobs after political life.

[@honahwikeepa2115]

Australia has massive gas reserves. Unfortunately we are controlled from abroad.

[@davidjohn9006]

Not unfortunately, it’s planned corruption within our own political ranks …

[@jessekoch3480]

It's taken over 200 years to build up this sweet bit of action. The government will not sabotage the legacy or bow to its citizens for any reason. The government simply gets new compliant ones, it's that simple. It's working well.

[@filiplachance8576]

Aussies have been enslaved by American multinational companies, and successive Coalition governments have offered zero resistence. Speaking of gross political corruption.

[@trg9765]

LY BORE R HAND IN HAND WITH THE LNP ON THIS

[@filiplachance8576]

@@trg9765 I know. All of Australia's major party politicians are now fully subservient to the USA. Right knees bent to the ground.

[@Merdacity]

How can we revolt against this?

[@VidarLund-k5q]

Look at how Norway successfully has managed its enormous gas and oil resources.

[@Proslopski]

Norwegian politicians work for Norway unlike here in Australia.

[@WillyWanka]

This is what happens when the fantasy world of climate change meets the real world of energy needs.

[@GazGuitarz]

100%

[@Neil-yg5gm]

Labor wants to get rid of gas. Coal as well.

[@grahamsengineering.2532]

I was on the Wheatstone LNG Project for 3 years and Chevron told us that they don't have to pay tax for the first 20 years and the gas was sold off shore for 20 cents a litre.

[@whitegum56]

Yes I can believe that. Some years ago I heard that we were selling our gas to Japan for a very small amount less than the price mentioned by Chevron and I would not be suprised it is still on going.

[@jayjaynella4539]

@@whitegum56 Gas to japan for 3 cents a litre. LPG for my car was $0.90 a litre.

[@VHVHVHVH-m3s]

WOW

[@abcdef8915]

Japan invests billions into gas extraction in Australia. Some projects would not exist without that capital. State governments prevent development of gas for domestic use.

[@WillyWanka]

I didn't know this. Can you elaborate

[@nottenvironmental6208]

So what is your point? We give them alot for free. Taxpayers, pay for the pipelines, export terminals and clean up far higher than the gain. It would be better for Australia if we didn't export ANY gas. It's now so much more expensive than solar for power production so why any gas? It's a dangerous, explosive product risking Australian lives daily, creates Asthma and the value is mostly transferred to our competitors to give them advantage over us, taking our good jobs, poisoning our water. If has was great for us, the gas led recovery would have added, not stolen our wealth. How many times will you get scammed before putting Australian people who owns the resources, b4 foreign corporations?

[@abcdef8915]

@@nottenvironmental6208 Lol. We do not give it away for free. Where do you come up with this stuff? Japan is a strategic ally and they need cheap energy. It takes years and multibillions to build up gas infrastructure. Gas exported to Japan and Korea is bought through long term contracts. We are legally obliged to provide a predictable supply to them. So, do you really want the world to depend on Russian gas? Lastly, gas is a transition fuel. The world will never get to net zero without it. You need gas as back up to intermittent renewables. Taking Australian gas off the market will just increase carbon emissions globally and introduce unnecessary shock to international trade.

[@dnickaroo3574]

Australia does as told by the US.

[@karlcotleanu486]

@@abcdef8915’Japan is a strategic ally, and they need cheap energy’ What about us? We own the stuff, but we should pay ever increasing international prices to the detriment of our own economy. That makes no sense at all!?!? We have an energy emergency in this country, much as like Trump has declared in the US. Those contracts can, and must be broken with new guidelines, due to the strategic importance of gas to Australia.

[@johngeier8692]

Australia’s energy policy is ludicrous. More gas should be reserved for domestic use and companies doing business here should be taxed here. We also need to exit the ridiculous Paris accord and use the most economical energy resources available. Our inept government is squandering many billions of dollars of taxpayers money and massive amounts of resources.

[@wazza33racer]

Democracy in Australia is stuck in a doom loop. 1 in 5 workers have a gov job, so they will certainly be voting for bigger government and bigger taxes to fund their job and future pay raises. Then we have the growing legion of welfare recipients and NDIS grifters employed by that scheme. This all means, that getting positive change away from the increasingly Soviet style stupid government is more difficult every day. Like the old USSR, Australia is going to face a crisis that leads to drastic change as reality asserts itself.

[@fatherburning358]

It would take an overwhelming public citizen civil response for anything to change.

[@the.parks.of.no.return]

In a nation of citizens of the world? Not likely

[@fatherburning358]

@the.parks.of.no.return yep.

[@MM-qq8eu]

REVOLUTION!!🇦🇺

[@karlcotleanu486]

@@the.parks.of.no.returnYou mean, ‘WOKE.’

[@bribywelsh]

Labor and Liberals same grifters. Under the thumbs of the Australian oligarchy and the military industrial complex. No shame or decency.

[@jasoncarmichael4540]

They get away with not paying the proper royalties

[@markspin4596]

Whoever made these decisions needs to be investigated..

[@LeonieHall-c4o]

That's jonny howard

[@markspin4596]

@@LeonieHall-c4o I wonder what bullshit excuse he'd come up with if asked.

[@gavriloprincip1477]

@@LeonieHall-c4o And Hawke. The UniParty.

[@rickrakauskas3287]

ever watched senate estimates? the Labor chair won't let the hard questions get answered, the senior public servants want everything on notice and usually are dragged in kicking and screaming and totally unprepared. when they do hand over documentation it is a bunch of black lines. Nah the secrecy that is endemic in Oz govt would have to be highly admired by Putin, Xi, Starmer and their ilk...

[@Eric-jo8uh]

Check the back pockets of politicians.

[@CraigWard]

Punter Politics has done some great videos on this. Would be great to see a convo with you two fellas.

[@timbrandis1151]

& Michael West. They are both great at exposing the corruption of LNG extraction here.

[@svetlana7904]

@@timbrandis1151but jus exposing and exposing, noting concrete or media involvement, names of politicians who sold out Aust natural resources 😮

[@C165095]

Both Labor and Coalition are Energy policy synonyms. Our Politicians hate Australia.

[@janinapalmer8368]

Vote for One Nation ... they will stop this madness

[@tombradshaw5164]

Yep, they will!

[@Olivier_The_Dilettante]

no they will not, corruption will infect them too, simples.

[@geoffreytoomey682]

I always do but the duopoly have rigged it 50 years ago so they take turns working for their masters in the UN Sadly, LNP leader Peter Dutton remains a UN puppet traitor to our nation like all his predecessors back to the bad old LABOR Whitlam and LNP Fraser days! When their decision to become just UN Puppets agreeing to the UN Lima declaration to sacrifice 30 of our industries and jobs to help China and other third world countries con job, that first treason lead to the now endemic TREASON in Federal, State Governments and Local and regional Councils becoming just the UN puppets for the WEF for the past 50 years This successful UN Paris accord and Climate Change is the WEFs wealth redistribution has nothing to do with Climate, to believe that the so called “RENEWABLES” (Green thingies are actually only “REPLACEABLE” but renewable sounds lovely to the sheeple) Can you possible imagen the cost of constantly replacing these REPLACABLES? And the cost of burying the old solar, wind turbine blades, batteries buried in the ground (a growth industry) totally replacing it all every 15 to 20 years? This Climate Change scam of Insanity is unsustainable! This is all about 50 years of LNP and LABOR POLITICIANS TREASON for the WEF global MONSTERS “Great Reset” and their UN Global Government by 2030. The Dictionary defines TREASON; “Treason” is when a person acts against his/her country. ... A treasonous person is called a TRAITOR! Outside the field of law, the word "traitor" can be used to describe a person who betrays a group to which he or she belongs!

[@diasalexandros6651]

Your naive if you think One Nation will fix anything. They are part of the monopoly, haven't you seen the dinner with Gina Rinehart.

[@KeepItSimpleSailor]

One Nation always vote with the LNP, have achieved nothing of substance, and are intellectually hollow at best.

[@KeepItSimpleSailor]

How do we change this? Australia should be rolling in gas money both for government and for citizens.

[@rogerandleoniehall9740]

One of the many times i yelled at the tv was when john howard gave our gas away to China.

[@Neil-yg5gm]

Howard gas contract was signed in 2002. It was the contracts Rudd/Gillard/ALP signed from 2008-2013 causing our shortages

[@Neil-yg5gm]

Turnbull in 2017 ""We’ve been grappling with a shortage of gas on the east coast which was the creation of the Labor Party when they were in government, when Blackout Bill was a minister in the Gillard Government and they allowed gas exports from Queensland, from the east coast, for the first time and paid absolutely no regard to protecting the interests of domestic customers. Their failure to do so is one of the great Labor failures in energy policy. There's been more than a few, but this one has had very long-running consequences. They were warned by the Australian Energy Market Operator at the time, they were warned by the Federal Government's own Energy Department, by the officials, that this, allowing exports without any protection for the domestic market would cause tighter supply and higher prices and it's done precisely that.""

[@Keep_calm_and_slave_on]

I’m mad as hell!!!

[@OKUHTGY98]

Madness complete madness the person or persons that signed this agreement should be made public for all Australians to see it's a disgrace. I'm sure that wont happen but bet it was sweet deal for them 😉 😉 nudge nudge say no more.

[@SaintKimbo]

Well Martin Ferguson (ALP) was in on this, back in the 90's, when he was energy Minister, surprisingly, straight after he left politics he, somehow, managed to obtain a high paying job with an energy company. The irony of Ferguson doing this, is that Ferguson was a long time head of the ACTU, Australia's peak Union body, an organisation that is supposed to concentrate on the well being of the ordinary Worker, to protect them from being exploited by big business. But, Liberal Ministers have done the same thing, so it's a non partisan thing.

[@stephengeorge7510]

I seem to remember John Howard crowing how good a deal it was that for​gein investors were developing our plentiful natural gas reserves for export. Sounded good at the time.@@SaintKimbo

[@vivrowe2763]

​@@stephengeorge7510Howard was the last time I voted for Liberal. Never voted Labor and I won't be voting ever again in this election.

[@WillyWanka]

Let me get this right...we are the one of the largest exporters of gas IN THE WORLD but we will be IMPORTING gas??? FROM WHO???

[@SaintKimbo]

Well, and you're going to like this, both China and Japan have large stocks of Australian gas, and guess what, they are going to sell it back to us, seriously.

[@amaknusa9212]

No your not importing it, it's Australian gas being given to foreign extractors for next to nothing, then being sold to Australians at top world prices, simple matee, crack another tinny while you digest it!

[@karlcotleanu486]

Probably buy it back from China or Japan, because they both buy more gas from us than they require domestically. Essentially, they will sell the gas back to us for a profit, while we sell it to them at considerable loss to Australian people and industry. Great, huh!?!?!?

[@tysonfinn1470]

Probally sell cheap to another country then we buy it back off them for higher price.

[@karlcotleanu486]

@ That is exactly what happens. China and Japan buy more of our gas than they need, and re-export it back to us at a considerable profit.

[@robertwestinghouse4098]

The problem is Big Gas is too strong and the politicians are too weak. If it was me I would tell the foreign gas coys to Duck off and give the gas to locals and anything else is exported via a government NON-profit (with reasonably paid senior execs) and the profits can be put into Health and Education.

[@whitegum56]

I do believe and have read that Qatar who has some of the worlds biggest gas reserves get a much better price for its gas and I can not understand why the stupid pollies here in Australia, just let our gas go overseas for a bloody song, just begs belief

[@robertwestinghouse4098]

@@whitegum56 Good point.But what worries me it the gas problem is as obvious as Bulls Balls and the pollies do nothing. We need a new (and I am going to get in trouble now) a left wing party to champion the people. Another issues is we have all been brainwashed to blindly believe that Capitalism is GOOD and Socialism and Communism are BAD - even so called educated people think this way. That is I suppose how the spineless corrupt pollies get away with it.

[@grahamsengineering.2532]

Vote One Nation and People First Party this election.

[@jasoncarmichael4540]

They are beholden to mining magnates and the fossil fuel sector

[@vivrowe2763]

One Nation don't have support even in Queensland. They also have no backing financially.

[@Merdacity]

No way - they are even worse

[@mylimomelbourne4757]

We have gas coming straight out of the ground converted straight into electricity 100% free energy, 99% clean and could be made 100% clean with scrubbers, Bairnsdale Power Station Victoria is a 94 megawatts (126,000 hp) natural gas-fired power station in Victoria's East Gippsland region, owned and operated by Alinta Energy. Natural gas is the clean. The CO2 emissions, Natural gas electric power generation we have unlimited amounts all over Victoria and Australia and could literally have 100’s if not 1000’s of small power stations all over the country totally free electric energy…,

[@DownUndaDigga]

Gas is NOT 99% clean. It’s about half of coal’s pollution. Still a very good transition fuel. A gas turbine is very quick to pump out the megawatts on demand. I have an old gas cylinder with a sticker that reads “beautifuel” How times have changed.

[@mylimomelbourne4757]

Permafrost thaw contributes to a positive feedback loop that further accelerates the warming of Earth, releasing methane, which is a more powerful greenhouse, what is this , it’s a cycle, we are still coming out of an ice age, everything organic decays gives off methane gas, cow shit , trees, grass, the billions of fossil now on tops of mountains, burn it or decay it, all the same, we will have another ice age or two or three before the big RED

[@mylimomelbourne4757]

If you had a 100% reliable generator that produced at 100 MW, over the course of a year it would produce 100X365x24=876,000 MWh of energy. A typical home (without electric heating or electric vehicle charging) will use around 8 MWh in a year, so our 100 MW of power could theoretically supply 110,000 homes., so do the sums , Most natural gas power stations can be upgraded to increase output and efficiency, 100% totally free electricity energy to Australians, 100% clean, why not ? Politics, it’s just methane gas coming straight out of the ground, methane escapes into the atmosphere all over the world and you can not stop it , it’s perfectly natural process of nature , it’s as clean as nature itself, it’s already part of our atmosphere, diesel is more efficient than steam but not part of the atmosphere , methane to natural gas more efficient than both …

[@karlcotleanu486]

Yet Australian citizens pay some of the highest energy prices for domestic and industrial use in the entire world.

[@mylimomelbourne4757]

Permafrost thaw contributes to a positive feedback loop that further accelerates the warming of Earth, releasing methane, which is a more powerful greenhouse, what is this , it’s a cycle, we are still coming out of an ice age, everything organic decays gives off methane gas, cow shit , trees, grass, the billions of fossil now on tops of mountains, burn it or decay it, all the same, we will have another ice age or two or three before the big RED …

[@ivantchakalski4102]

I been saying this for years and nothing will change they seams more interest of foreign policies then helping Australian people.

[@FRANK-r1w]

i dislike it when people say Australians are stupid or Australians did something wrong australians dont have a say in most things in australia the politicians of this country make these choices not the average australian

[@SaintKimbo]

But Australians keep voting them back in, that's the issue.

[@rickrakauskas3287]

@@SaintKimbo yeah that's the stupid part right there

[@amaknusa9212]

Ha Ha, what an ASININE comment, All Australian Politicians are Australian CITIZENS!!!!!!

[@amaknusa9212]

@@SaintKimbo Yeah Australians keep voting in Australians.....DAH GOO DAH.

[@FRANK-r1w]

@@SaintKimbo52

[@Robo67-24]

John Howard sold the gas to the Chinese in 2006 or 7. The whole lot of it. He didn't make sure there was reserves for Australia to sell to Australians for cheaper prices.

[@charliechaplin3098]

Vote Independent on the Day.

[@crouchingwombathiddenquoll5641]

2004. Japan funded the construction of Wickham Point LNG processing facility. They paid American company Bechtel to build the plant. The role of management and operations was given to American company ConocoPhillips. The deal being, CP manages the plant for 20 years, supplying Japan with LNG at 0.03 cents per liter. After the 20 year contract, complete ownership of the processing facility is transferred to ConocoPhillips to do with as they please. Australian government was limited to harvesting the income tax of local workers during construction and maintenance. Bugs Bunny could have negotiated a better deal for Australia.

[@jcisme]

I saw a part of an interview with Tony Abbott with the IPA. He is saying that we should declare an energy emergency like the US. Agreed. His solution though is that we need to produce more. Disagree. We just need to reserve a chuck for our own use. I have little faith Dutton (should he win) will be able to change any of this bad policy.

[@karlcotleanu486]

I totally agree. MAGA!! Make Australia Great Again.

[@tombradshaw5164]

Dutton WON'T change anything, and anybody who beleives otherwise is just delusional. Dutto wants to continue with the Net-Zero crap. That should tell us where we're heading under the LNP. It's called NOWHERE!

[@steveremington]

The Australian government (either party) will not even think about writing gas rules because their gas industry donors would not like it.

[@mylimomelbourne4757]

We need all the energy we can get, oil prices coming down, demand for electricity going through the roof with AI computing, LNP wants more energy including Solar EV bringing down energy electricity prices, labour sold us all out by the one thing preventing global evolution of technology into Australia, a free market a free economy, a free democracy , give up your kickbacks labour…and the national broadcaster, Australians living in tents whilst working with good incomes, what is this a circus,

[@danielstapler4315]

@InfinityIsland2203 Over the last 30 years the Liberals have been in power for about 20 years and Labor for 10 years and you think the Liberals are going to fix things?

[@divotor147]

Give it up mate, both major parties have sold us out. You expect things to improve if the Libs get in? A laugh of contempt from me!

[@Noddy2750]

Are you related to Gina Rinehart ? Troll !

[@mylimomelbourne4757]

@divotor147. @Noddy2750 Thank you both for your reply, all constructive and criticism, replies, comments are very welcome in a democracy and democratic freedom of speech in this country for the time being. And we don’t know how long for, I wish I could say the same for other countries. LNP, Better the devil you know.” Something bad but known is better than something unknown. This describes how to deal with something unpleasant. The “devil” could be any bad person, place, or thing, like labour who I supported for 40 years , even Micky Mouse would do better…

[@mylimomelbourne4757]

@divotor147. @Noddy2750 Thank you both for your reply, all constructive and criticism, replies, comments are very welcome in a democracy and democratic freedom of speech in this country for the time being. And we don’t know how long for, I wish I could say the same for other countries. Why are we still being censored, Biden is already gone ?

[@fredgassit4450]

It is criminal and traitorous not just madness. Every politician for the last 59 years is culpable in the destruction of Australia’s sovereignty and self sufficiency

[@amraceway]

Get back to basics. When Great Britain took possession of Australia it did so for the benefit of the ruling class. Its mineral wealth just like the land was given as favour to members of the ruling class.That the majority ownership still resides in that tiny minority of favoured people should come as no great shock. A consequence of this situation is that most Australians have no control over its resources and never will have.

[@lucasroe2878]

Politicians need to make this right. ASAP. The people who signed off on the current deal need to face serious corruption and misconduct charges.

[@JimmyCall]

The corrupt contracts should be ripped up, as they are founded in criminal outcomes.

[@novoca1n3]

It's the Politician's and their kickbacks from big corporate that's the problem

[@Matto_Harvo]

More to it than this. No one wants to explore for gas in Victoria because of the ease at which greenies can stop the process. No exploration means dwindling gas supplies means higher prices. If companies had surety and confidence in Victorian gas policies; they would find the gas and put it to market.

[@Felix-s9z7i]

Dwindling gas supplies? In the 2 biggest gas exporter in the world? Is that a minerals council talking point?

[@Matto_Harvo]

@ aren’t gas supplies dwindling in Victoria?

[@karlcotleanu486]

@@Matto_HarvoApparently, they have massive reserves but don’t want to tap into them because of all the woke, greenie nonsense.

[@helen9722]

Why aren't us Aussies protesting ?

[@rickrakauskas3287]

Too tired, too lazy, too stupid to keep up with what is really going on. I got graziers out here who have never heard of BRICS, and the fact their largest importer of Oz beef just joined as a full member (Indonesia). The worlds largest beef producer (Brazil) is also a member. A stated aim of Brics is to encourage trade between member states first before going out into the rest of the world. Put two and two together - well there is possibly a market loss looming. So just being aware it could happen, and prepare for it? Too hard...

[@amaknusa9212]

Protest!! The barby is running mate, and the footy is about to begin,,,can it wait!

[@rickrakauskas3287]

@ sad but probably true. when the barbie is exchanged for a cooking fire near the tent that now houses the family, well it might sink in.

[@davidnowhere2637]

How could our politicians past and present be so stupid assuming there is/was no corruption involved ?

[@newto4361]

The corrupt etc Uniparty Kayfabe has to go and the country reclaimed for it's people same as other sensible countries do

[@georgekashuba1656]

What's happening to our superannuation, the funds go up and down and when you retire your fund be 60%. We have been forced into a compulsory superannuation in 1990 by Paul Keating which moved the liabilities on the public. When your superannuation has a loss you don't get a taxable deduction but you pay a tax when there is a profit every year. Wake up Australia.

[@LonesomeDrifter186]

Thanks for all your work, Good on ya for covering this... Pointy end of the stick now it seems, doubt anything changes though this is decades in the making and still hard to believe, its a real pisstake just like the rest of life on isla de corporacion.

[@Neil-yg5gm]

his from Turnbull in 2017 ""We’ve been grappling with a shortage of gas on the east coast which was the creation of the Labor Party when they were in government, when Blackout Bill was a minister in the Gillard Government and they allowed gas exports from Queensland, from the east coast, for the first time and paid absolutely no regard to protecting the interests of domestic customers. Their failure to do so is one of the great Labor failures in energy policy. There's been more than a few, but this one has had very long-running consequences. They were warned by the Australian Energy Market Operator at the time, they were warned by the Federal Government's own Energy Department, by the officials, that this, allowing exports without any protection for the domestic market would cause tighter supply and higher prices and it's done precisely that.""

[@betkay1018]

*Well Martin, you may have to be the one to step into the void to lead us out of this mess and into the "light" as it were !!*

[@michaelm4970]

Not stupid, criminal!

[@Neil-yg5gm]

Turnbull in 2017- Labor is the cause of our gas problems ""We’ve been grappling with a shortage of gas on the east coast which was the creation of the Labor Party when they were in government, when Blackout Bill was a minister in the Gillard Government and they allowed gas exports from Queensland, from the east coast, for the first time and paid absolutely no regard to protecting the interests of domestic customers. Their failure to do so is one of the great Labor failures in energy policy. There's been more than a few, but this one has had very long-running consequences. They were warned by the Australian Energy Market Operator at the time, they were warned by the Federal Government's own Energy Department, by the officials, that this, allowing exports without any protection for the domestic market would cause tighter supply and higher prices and it's done precisely that.""

[@shares163]

America can drill baby drill !!! and Australia with large gas supplies does nothing in its interest. Make Australia Great Again "MAGA." Dutton here's to you

[@trg9765]

Dutton & LNP WILL DO NOTHING

[@PeterEilmann]

Dutton is in the pocket of the big multinationals.

[@Mike_221]

Military coup

[@lightinthedarkness5606]

Civilian corruption and political disposal division

[@linricks3634]

this shows the rest of the world that we are stupid. thank you albo. I live in the most stupid country in the world.

[@byronwilliams4889]

It was john howard who set this up

[@linricks3634]

Don't blame John Howard. Albo and his very bad government has done this all on his own 😭

[@lightinthedarkness5606]

Its just greed and corruption it fomes down grom the top down through even yhe poorest man

[@nickhall1731]

The QLD CSG gas fields would not have been developed without LNG exports as it was not economic to do so. At the time the domestic gas price for most GSAs was around $3 to $3.50 GJ compared to LNG price of $6 to $7.

[@danielwinter7054]

You can thank Julia Gillard for selling off barrow island to chevron and take all our gas off shore back to the states then cell it back to us at top dollar .I'd love to see the kickback she got for that

[@Ozcrazy49]

Correct. I remember seeing her & Wayne Swan signing the deal. Both now laughing all the way to the Bank. Should be in jail for treason.

[@Rick_Yates]

Barrow Island, I worked there for WAPET 1960,s oil producing to Kwinana refinery in Perth, Gas was a problem in the well too much at high pressure had to be flared (burnt off). The Yanks were sniffing around the North West Shelf drilling wildcats for oil reserves but the high pressure Gas made it uneconomical. When LPG became a commodity Chevron already had the exploration data from their oil exploration years before.

[@reverseuniverse2559]

Another whining Pom who left his ruined country for a better life seems too spoiled to me lmao this has been the case since the 80s dude with Asian countries buying our gas for less than any other country

[@dougieb777]

As natural born Australians, shouldn't we all have inherited shares in all our natural resources?

[@vivrowe2763]

Yes know exactly why they are doing it, and what is coming.

[@yedrellow]

This problem has entered into the west as well. Gas prices have tripled in Western Australia in the past 5 years, largely because of previously reserved allocation being exported. We need more supply in the west as well.

[@sydthomas180]

Decades of dumb government decisions. Giving these foreign companies 100 year leases instead of looking after aussies 1st. Absolute disgrace being at the mercy of and dictated to by other countries with our own resources.

[@000pete9]

Regulations! The gas activities must be regulated under the Gas and Electricity Act!. Please look into this. Over years , after 80s, this activities were deregulated for profits. Now it's gone mad , ignoring the national needs by exporting gas products to the maximum. We are where we are ,stuffed!.

[@steventaylor5283]

THANKS FROM AUSTRALIA

[@gone547]

A country with so much potential in search of a competent, patriotic government.

[@ralphsimpson4593]

We need to Make Australia Grate

[@DanielStone-yw1rn]

How embarrassing and is it safe taking all this gas out, so we're paying more for it than were getting and does that effect inflation?

[@victorsvoice7978]

Australia needs a national gas reservation policy for domestic uses.

[@jonce81]

So what's next, what do the people do now to stop this robbery.

[@adriandocherty778]

Oh well. At least they let you vote NO in the referendum !!🤣😂

[@chrishewitt1165]

Yes. We are being turned into the world's mine.

[@Calphurnia966]

I just bought a new gas mate cooker . And had another turn at fixing the outdoor one, as it had weathered and wouldn't ignite . Kept trying it , and trying it and it just wouldn't bang on , so disappointed , I conceded defeat and bought brand new one, from Bunnings . The brand new one then gave me the confidence to tackling fixing the weathered tired one , have another crack at getting it working again. And I took some time with it, carefully cleaned it all up , sat it in full sun for a day , let it rest in the cool, dark place (for week or two to rest) put a brand new gas cartridge in, double checked everything was aligned and fitted right and turned it over ! Do you think that I fixed it readers ? 😁 Bingo ! Of course I did . As per usual . Got it going again bang on beautifully. So now I have two, gas top cookers . And relieved because I was going to throw the weathered one out . But persevered as the new, gave me the confidence to revisit the old . 😊

[@MarkGreen-d4s]

Santos should be held responsible for Aust gas prices.

[@sampsonsunny6298]

Australia 🇦🇺, the fools parsley. 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@leannevitale3228]

Honestly this makes me so angry, more than anything they have done before. My opinion of Government is at an all time low but until the people of this country start voting more wisely this will continue.

[@urallnutz5294]

The price will keep going up until it's more sensible for Australia to buy US LNG. We will follow the European example

[@MrMoto948]

Shades of govmnt? Shaves of govmnt as they cream a % off the top for their shady investments.

[@jasonschubert6828]

Let's not forget the countries like the US, who do have a gas reserve, have brought their emissions down considerably by moving from coal to cheap, locally sourced gas for the electricity generation. Meanwhile Australia's emissions have actually gone up due to our ridiculous immigration policy.

[@peterhoulis1184]

Yes cause we have a stupid GOVERNMENT

[@parttimetourist]

Yes I agree but only because we have stupid Government Politicians

[@kernboucher436]

😂😂😂😂😂 wait gas rich but gas poor 😂😂😂😂😂

[@drowningblonde]

5:55 I doubt anytime soon because "she'll be right, mate" is the mentally of most Australians.

[@bigrobsydney]

Summary - stupid politicians. What is to be done about these stupid politicians then? Time to form a new political party. Lets go.

[@LukeXMV]

Where does the money go? Why Qataris pay zero tax while having similar profit per capita as Australians from sale of gas? And Australia is not just gas but many other mineral resources including uranium!

[@accadacastkr4912]

sheer greed by yhe bs politicans aussies need to act about this crap australia could and should be self sufficiant

[@davidbrayshaw3529]

Thanks, John Howard. Great economic management. Well done. You did a great job negotiating the sale of gas on the Eastern seaboard. And you did a wonderful job of ensuring supply and price on our shores. Well done, once again. You are truly the greatest and most responsible economic manager that Australia has ever had. Not bad, for a drop out ambulance chaser.

[@Neil-yg5gm]

It was the Rudd/Gillard/ALP government from 2008-2013 that authorised export of gas from the East Coast for the first time.

[@davidbrayshaw3529]

@@Neil-yg5gm At that time, I was in a business and an industry that was hugely gas dependent. I remember the time with absolute clarity. The deal was brokered by the Howard Government. Following convention, Rudd signed off on it. I can still remember watching television news with my boss, at the time, and seeing John Howard proclaiming to the nation what a wonderful deal he had done. And here we are, today. And, by the way, I'm a swinging voter. I don't hold a torch for the ALP whatsoever, but Howard was a trainwreck.

[@Neil-yg5gm]

@ The Howard gas deal was signed in 2002 ie 23 years ago. The gas deals causing our shortages are the ones signed by Rudd/Gillard/ALP from 2008-2013. Worse Labor was warned we would have gas shortages if they signed those contracts. Labor ignored the warning.

[@davidbrayshaw3529]

@ I am open to correction, but that is not what I recall. Was there a change in contract between the deal that Howard brokered and the one that Rudd signed off on? I wasn't aware of that. There were serious concerns about the amount of available gas that Australia had when Howard entered negotiations, something that has been realised, today. What changes were made to the contracts between the two parties?

[@Neil-yg5gm]

@@davidbrayshaw3529 This from Turnbull when he was PM ""We’ve been grappling with a shortage of gas on the east coast which was the creation of the Labor Party when they were in government, when Blackout Bill was a minister in the Gillard Government and they allowed gas exports from Queensland, from the east coast, for the first time and paid absolutely no regard to protecting the interests of domestic customers. Their failure to do so is one of the great Labor failures in energy policy. There's been more than a few, but this one has had very long-running consequences. They were warned by the Australian Energy Market Operator at the time, they were warned by the Federal Government's own Energy Department, by the officials, that this, allowing exports without any protection for the domestic market would cause tighter supply and higher prices and it's done precisely that.""

[@mmmail1969]

A Few sobering points: 1) Australia cuts gas companies favourable deals, because they've poured tens of billions of dollars into developing the gas fields and huge supporting infrastructure. 2) The time has now come, for Australia to improve its "take" of both i) a share of gas for itself and ii) a FEDERAL royalty increase to earn more $$$ from the now mature gas assets. 3) "Stupid"...maybe more accurate to say slow, but in all fairness, we have had others pay to develop a massive resource!

[@htbuckley]

This makes me sick, I find it hard to watch/listen... Next time I vote It won't be labour/liberal

[@augustinvanlakerveld3402]

Why has Automotive LNG still the same price, over the past 3 years?

[@marciamenage931]

Higher Gas prices will eventually lead to much higher inflation...

[@Proslopski]

PEP11 huge gas reserves East Coast just been cancelled by Labor.

[@Proslopski]

The court may return it back in the saddle, though.

[@MrDino1953]

For American viewers, in this video "gas" is literally a gas (natural gas). It's not an abbreviation of the liquid "gasoline".

[@WalkTheWorldDFA]

Thanks, good point...

[@grahamj1935]

We don't need to send our oil overseas to process then but it back...we CAN produce our own fuels..... Apparently not....

[@rachellegrace2346]

big gas companies fund the political parties ..this is why things won't change..until Australians stop voting Lib or Labor..vote them out..