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Peter Wright

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PhD candidate, ANU Fenner School. Biodiversity governance and strategy, incremental transformation, intergenerational institutions. | Recovering cynic | Walking addict | Music fanatic | Nature bather |

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Here's a French video (with English subtitles) about what would happen if the far-right racists got their way and all foreigners and people of colour were forced to leave.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"Australia’s biggest industrial emitters are being paid to pollute, new analysis finds" Tegan George thepoint.com.au/new/260731-a...
thepoint.com.au
Australia’s biggest industrial emitters are being paid to pollute, new analysis finds
New analysis has found Australia’s biggest industrial emitters received around $22 in Fuel Tax Credit rebates for every dollar they spent complying with the federal government’s emissions reduction po...
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Did you know that if the 94-seat super-majority @albomp.bsky.social govt NIXED FUEL TAX CREDITS, they would INSTANTLY INCENTIVISE the likes of BHP to get off diesel & decarbonise by seriously pursuing fleet electrification plans 🙏 @accr.bsky.social #LaborNationalConference
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Investor briefing: Latest insights into BHP’s operational decarbonisation pathway
Investors can help drive improvements by encouraging BHP to provide greater transparency about its decarbonisation plans.
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 23/07/2026
An animal, plant, landscape or waterway may be culturally vital even if not rare or threatened.
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‘A river is our life force’: why Indigenous cultural values must be visible in conservation
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 28/06/2026
By identifying the shared attributes of several major global problems, Steve Dovers and his colleagues aim to build understanding of how to tackle these complex challenges. #disruption #complexunboundedproblems
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Confronting disruption and seeing it coming
A new book examines how to deal with the complex problems caused by natural and humanitarian disasters, technological failures and geopolitical tensions.
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
How the bloomin’ heck did I miss that @punterspolitics.bsky.social did a video on the IPA?! This is excellent. You can see how…wild Daniel Wild is. The current exec director comes across as rabid. See my piece below for how much more unhinged he performs cf peers. #Auspol youtu.be/0yFKNtpBkv8?...
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How a Small Group of Wealthy People Shapes What You Think | Punters Politics
YouTube video by Punter's Politics
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The first fleet had 60 nationalities and ethnic backgrounds among convicts, crew, and marines. 15 people of African descent. Multicultural Australia.
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fernandolongo.bsky.social @fernandolongo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Australia is experiencing is a foreign infiltration of our democracy #auspol open.substack.com/pub/redbridg...
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Call It What It Is: Foreign Interference
If a hostile state ran this sort of operation to swing our vote, we'd call it foreign interference. It's time we did.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Human rights abuses next door as Prabowo militarism, censorship rise. Duncan Graham reports from Indonesia #auspol michaelwest.com.au/indonesia-mi...
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Indonesia. Militarism on the rise amid censorship over West Papua - Michael West
Australians are concerned with violent abuses of powerless people in the Middle East. Next door, similar evils thrive, in Indonesia
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SallyRCbra @srpassesiton.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
In the week since the Federal Budget failed to deliver any meaningful funding action on men’s violence against women ( they repackaged previous funding announcements) , five women and two children have been killed by men they lived with or knew. #auspol #MVAWC womensagenda.com.au/latest/eds-b...
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Five women, two children killed since Budget. But PM claims they're 'throwing everything' at the issue
There will be more spent on offshore detention in one year than new spending addressing violence against women over next 4 years.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 15/05/2026
Anthony Albanese says we at the Australia Institute need to be fair dinkum about a 25% gas export tax. Well, this is us being fair dinkum! @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
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Pantrywoman @pantrywoman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026
Indonesian military massacres West Papuans in latest round of violence www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1451/worl… #Auspol
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Indonesian military massacres West Papuans in latest round of violence
Indonesian security forces have killed at least six people, including two children, in Dogiyai regency in West Papua, allegedly in retaliation for the killing of a police officer. Ben Radford reports.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
NEW: Is this the broligarchy’s first world war? AI, like war & rape, is a hyper-masculine fantasy of God-like power, a myth at the dark heart of what we’re seeing play out in the Gulf. This war hasn’t replaced the Epstein scandal. It is the Epstein scandal. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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The Broligarchy's First World War?
AI-guided weapons, two out-of-control authoritarians, no legal authority and a toxic mess of masculinity: welcome to the manosphere's first major conflict
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Fed gov signed up to the Global Biodiversity Framework which includes a target to "eliminate, phase out or reform annual incentives that harm biodiversity" & was meant to identify these harmful subsidies by 2025 🦗🦗🦗fr the Albo govt but Paul Elton & colleagues+@biodivcouncil.bsky.social did the job
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Australia spent $26 billion on 'nature-harming' incentives in a year
The federal government funds $26 billion of incentives each year that may be harmful to the environment and is yet to report on its international commitments, researchers say.
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Readers or royalties? Why I've made my last 8 books open access (free) @bookshelfie.bsky.social simonchapman6.com/2018/12/12/r...
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Readers or royalties? why now I make my books open access
[Updated 16 Fed, 2026] I wrote my first book in 1983. It was a small manual of tactics for counteracting the tobacco industry’s promotional strategies, described by a tobacco industry snoop at the …
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
"Some have argued the impact of introduced species has been overstated, and that introduced species should be seen as a legitimate part of Australia’s ecosystems. Scientific evidence and conservation outcomes do not support this." theconversation.com/yes-feral-ca... - @aunz.theconversation.com
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Yes, feral cats and foxes really have driven many Australian mammals to extinction
Decades of evidence link foxes and feral cats with extinctions of Australian mammals. Claims these introduced predators aren’t responsible don’t stack up.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 01/01/2026
Australia Institute research shows that nurses pay more tax than gas and oil companies. Meanwhile, multinational gas companies get 56% of our gas for free and then export it overseas. Sign the petition: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_ga…
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purepapua.bsky.social @purepapua.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
—The World’s Largest Deforestation Project — West Papua: A forest that couldn’t scream loud enough, and a people the world chose NOT to hear. #deforestation #rainforestdestruction #ecocide #WestPapua via @mightyearth.org
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Papua, Indonesia: The World's Largest Deforestation Project
YouTube video by Mighty Earth
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Tim Barlow @timbarlow.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
This.....
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
The richest 10% of Australian households get more money from the capital gains tax discount than the government spends on Jobseeker, the childcare subsidy, government schools or higher education - nearly $4.5bn more than it would cost to include dental in Medicare.
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Treasury figures reveal $18 billion capital gains windfall for Australia’s richest 10 per cent
The latest tax expenditure figures released on Friday by the Treasury department show this financial year the richest 10 percent of Australians will receive $18bn worth of tax breaks from the capital ...
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Steven Bernard @sdbernard.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
NEW: Deforestation in Indonesia is underway at a rapid pace, with the help of the military, to make way for rice and sugarcane. Huge thanks to @mightyearth.org for their help with the data. Read Anantha Lakshmi's excellent report www.ft.com/content/27a6... #dataviz #gistribe
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purepapua.bsky.social @purepapua.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
World’s largest deforestation program. Military occupation. Indigenous land. One crime scene: West Papua. #WestPapua #ecocide #deforestation #palmoil #sugarcane #GreenColonialism #RainforestDestruction
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Indonesia is running the world’s largest deforestation program in occupied West Papua
In Indonesian-occupied West Papua, soldiers are enforcing the destruction of vast areas of rainforest to be replaced by the monoculture plantations of the government’s “food estate” program, reports C...
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 07/10/2025
Does the news reflect what we die from?
The image presents a comparison of the leading causes of death in the United States for 2023 and the media coverage these causes receive from three news outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News. 

In the footer, it notes the data sources, indicating that the information is based on media mentions from Media Cloud (2025) and death data from the US CDC (2025) and the Global Terrorism Index, with a clarification that values are normalized to sum to 100%.
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Sato Juniper @satojuniper.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
There seems to be increasingly frenzied coercive activity to silence legitimate comment and questioning. Maybe because that's all that's left to people who have lost all credibility in their denial & justification of the depraved behaviour of a cruel & vindictive rogue state. Truth will win #Auspol
Portrait of Voltaire (maybe) with inscription: "If you want to know who controls you, look at who [sic] you are not allowed to criticize"
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Peter Garrett @petergarrett.com.au · 17/09/2025
Today at Jabiluka with Traditional Owner Yvonne Margarula & family, on their first “legal” return to country in 40+ years. Soon this land will join Kakadu NP after one of the most important land rights & conservation struggles in modern Australia. A really important day.
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Tania Jayesuria @tanjay81.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
"...the number of FoI documents granted in full had fallen by more than half in just over a decade, from 59% in 2011-12 to 25% in 2023-24...the rate of outright refusals nearly doubled, from 12% to 23% during the same period." So much for transparency #auspol #FOI www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Albanese government worse than Morrison era at producing documents for public scrutiny, report finds
Labor’s first term saw second-worst performance since 1993 in complying with Senate orders for documents, data shows
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 11/06/2025
"Australia is the 3rd biggest fossil fuel exporter in the world. "Norway, which is also a big fossil fuel exporter, they tax their fossil fuel industry and give their kids free university education. "In Aus, we subsidise the fossil fuel industry." @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
At 4C scientists predict 90% of the world’s population could die. We’re on track to hit 4C within our childrens’ lifetimes. 7,000,000,000+ avoidable deaths. Waiting for a journalist to ask a politician about this.
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purepapua.bsky.social @purepapua.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Killings and torture are rising in #WestPapua, experts say. They have a message for Albanese #AusPol www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
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As Albanese jets to Jakarta, there are calls for him to confront an 'oppressor'
Human Rights Monitor says at least 13 people have been killed in West Papua in the past six months as tensions between Indigenous people and Indonesian troops increase.
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Minnie’s mum @minniesmum.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I feel like this book adequately describes Dutts, Clive and his Trumpets and Sky News viewers.
A send up of children’s ’ladybird’ books… a young guy with red hair parted on the side and wearing an orange jumper is leaning into the engine of a car with bonnet open and pointing at the engine. There’s text saying : ‘This engine is woke’. The title of the book is ‘Everything I don’t like is Woke — a book for basic dickheads.’
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Liberal Party Lie Collector @lie-collector.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
IT'S HERE! Liberal Lies Collector Card #6: "Renewables are driving up power bills" The Truth? Electricity is expensive because of surging fossil fuel prices. 🔄 Repost to share the truth 💾 Save now to quickly share 👇 See thread for extra details ➕ Follow for more! #auspol #factcheck #AusVotes2025
An imitation collector card, with the brand "Australian Liberal Party Lies". This is #6. The tagline is "Collect them all ... so you don't elect them all!"

The Lie section says: “Renewables are driving up power bills”.

The Facts section says:
“Coal and gas prices have DOUBLED, which pushed up wholesale and then retail electricity prices”.

A series of small bar charts illustrate changes in relevant data between 2020/21 and 2022/23/24, showing coal prices increasing 135%, gas prices 112%, wholesale electricity prices 104%, and the percentage of renewables having increased 30%. Retail prices are shown in a larger chart to have increased 24% from 2020/21/22 to 2023/24. An arrow links wholesale prices to retail prices with the label “Lag”.

Footnotes refer to the sources of the data as AER, ABS, Open Electricity, YCharts and OFX.

The graphic is licensed as Creative Commons, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives.
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
White's assessment is blunt: "The sooner we cut our losses and get out of AUKUS the better, and if the Trump administration's scepticism offers a chance to do so, we should grab it." #CancelAUKUS #AusPol
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Australia's perceived value to the US changes under Trump
Experts say Australia matters less to Trump than it did to Biden which has consequences for vital intelligence-sharing alliance Five Eyes as well as the AUKUS deal.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 25/02/2025
Did you know Woodside’s North West Shelf gas export terminal has caused WA wholesale gas and electricity prices to triple? That’s because in 2020 the WA Government let Woodside start exporting WA’s domestic gas reserves, exposing us to global prices. Read: australiainstitute.org.au/post/triple-...
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Chris Bowen @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
How can Dutton get it so wrong?
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Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This is very good advice.
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Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
@kevinbonham.bsky.social Please help me understand why Sportsbet rates a Coalition win at $1.53, but then a Coalition Minority or Majority at longer odds than a Labor Minority:
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Eric Bananarama @ericbanana.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Just a reminder … Australian preferential voting allows you to choose who gets your vote should your first preference not be successful. Make your vote count, don’t vote for the same old shit. #auspol #CarnAustraliaGetYourShitTogether #FuckMurdoch #Greens #Teals youtu.be/bleyX4oMCgM
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Honest Government Ad | Preferential Voting
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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David Killick @surlydave.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Meanwhile, in Collins Street...
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I wrote this about the media's first big test of Trump 2.0, and how poorly it scored. On the tedious, vital work of seeing what's in front of our faces for the next four years. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Week one in Trumpland: The first step is seeing what’s in front of our faces
We should resist the voices attempting to tell us it’s all fine
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Peter Wright @pwr1.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I hope the MAGA crowd read this cautionary tale of a small town's libertarian experiment. newrepublic.com/article/1596...
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The Town That Went Feral
When a group of libertarians set about scrapping their local government, chaos descended. And then the bears moved in.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Yep, when you hear that mining is huge, remember they mean the profits are huge... The Hospitality industry pays more wages to Australians than does mining.
Charts of the payments to workers:
Hospitality - $42.8bn
Mining - $42.4bn

Profits:
Hospitality - $13.9bn
Mining - $253.2bn
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Jenny Fay @jennyfay16.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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Bruno Alves Buzatto @brunobuzatto.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
First paper of 2025 — the Sydney funnel-web spider is actually at least three different species: bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... @flindersuniversity.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de
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The world’s most venomous spider is a species complex: systematics of the Sydney funnel-web spider (Atracidae: Atrax robustus) - BMC Ecology and Evolution
The Sydney funnel-web spider Atrax robustus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877 is an iconic Australian species and considered among the most dangerously venomous spiders for humans. Originally described in 18...
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
1. As Zuckerberg abandons fact checking in the name of “free speech”, let’s take a moment to examine this concept. 🧵
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 06/01/2025
#DYK nearly 75% of major marine fish stocks have been depleted/overexploited & 50% of live coral cover on reefs destroyed? - @ipbes.bsky.social #GlobalAssessment Let’s restore our ocean's vitality & ensure a more sustainable future. 🪸🌍🧪🦈
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 30/12/2024
The Australian Government gives most of the gas exported from Australia by foreign-owned gas corporations for free. They pay no royalties. The gas industry is ripping Australians off, and our governments are letting them. 🖊️ Tax the gas industry buff.ly/49NP7tJ #auspol
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