Letter

In response to Albanese is crying poor, but we’re losing billions a year from untaxed gas

Courage missing in action

Conservative Australian Governments have been purchased by the big largely overseas gas extractors and in the case of Labor have been, at least in recent years, scared witless of them. Unlike the Norwegians who have built the biggest sovereign wealth fund in the world, by ensuring gas and oil companies pay for the resources they have extracted, Australia has allowed itself to be either bought or frightened into handing over the patrimony of the Australian people to rapacious multinational companies with hardly a whimper. Now there is a surprise!

— Les Macdonald from Balmain NSW 2041