Big gas corporations are ripping us off

Join us for beers at the Kent Town Hotel. We will be bundling Tax Gas Now flyers and you can take a stack home with you afterwards.

Right now, the government collects more money from things like the beer excise and student HECS debt repayments than it does from all gas exports combined.

It’s time for that to change.

A minimum 25% export tax on gas revenue would raise $17 billion a year. This could go a long way to funding urgent cost of living relief, a fair transition to a clean energy economy, and world class public services for all Australians.

But the Prime Minister keeps choosing their big gas donors over you. In 2024 Santos paid $0 in tax, but they gave almost $150,000 in donations to the major parties. Every Australian Resources Minister since 2001 has gone on to work for a fossil fuel company. Gas companies don’t give out donations and cushy jobs for nothing, in return they expect an easy ride.

We need to be louder and more powerful than the gas lobby. We have already forced the gas lobby to spend $11 million trying to silence us. If we keep the pressure on Labor, we can win a tax on gas exports by the end of the year.

If you have any queries or require more information, please email chris.matonti@sa.greens.org.au

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We acknowledge that these events take place on the land of the Kaurna people.

Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.