Albo not listening to voters

May 18, 2026

Sophie Vorrath’s article raises the rationale for a sensible rate of taxation on exported LPNG.

Albanese supplicates the gas extraction industry. His obduracy is contemptible: 75 per cent of Australians (who vote, Anthony) want the proposed tax; the voting power of the gas industry is miniscule.

Albanese’s judgement that Australians (who vote, Anthony) will ignore that he sells them out for a mess of pottage will come back to bite him spectacularly.

The argument for the tax generally quote a loss of revenue to Australia of around $19 billion annually. Few commentators have taken a deep dive into the impact on Australians (who vote, Anthony).

Gas is a major polluter. Australians (who vote, Anthony) are being hit hard by climate change effects: horrendous increases in home insurance costs, more health issues, huge increases in electricity costs, undreamed of environmental degradation etc.

You have a Faustian bargain with the gas corporations, Anthony.

If (when) fracking poisons a major arterial water basin a vast area of food-producing land would become unusable. Starving Australians (who vote, Anthony) will turn on you and there is NOTHING you can do to ameliorate the damage.

Neither can we and we won’t forget that.