WE don’t agree with all the positions of The Australia Institute, but it’s hard to deny they have a case against the Federal Government in the matter of the Great Australian Gas Giveaway scandal.
The institute says more than half of Australia’s gas exports are given away, without payment of royalties or Petroleum Resource Rent Tax.
“Over the last four years, multinational companies made $170 billion exporting gas they got for free. Based on Federal Government forecasts, to 2030 another $170 billion of liquified natural gas will be exported based on free gas.
“Previous Australia Institute research estimated that 56.2% of Australia’s gas exports pay no royalty, while Federal Treasury has stated that “To date, not a single LNG project has paid any Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT) and many are not expected to pay significant amounts of PRRT until the 2030s,” the institute reports.
“This meant that over the four years to 2023-24, gas companies exported $149 billion worth of liquified natural gas (LNG) based on Australian gas that they obtained without royalty or PRRT payment.
“This briefing note updates these calculations based on the latest commodity forecasts by the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources (DISER). These forecasts were published in Resources and Energy Quarterly (March 2025). This briefing note focuses on LNG volumes and dollar figures.”
There are now 23 offshore gas and oil platforms and installations in Bass Strait, including the new Marlin B platform and Kipper subsea wells, which feed a network of 600km of underwater pipelines and keep the oil and gas flowing, 24 hours a day – mostly offshore while the idiotic Victorian government pushes to “electrify” the state on a solar, wind and battery network.
The Federal Government has also approved an extension and doubling of the North West Shelf gas project, but again the multinational gas and oil giants somehow manage to strong-arm weak Australian politicians on both sides of the aisle into giving the gas away.
Is it these same multinationals who are financing the global campaign for the “transition away from fossil fuels” while at the same time making hundreds of billions of dollars selling the gas to countries like India, China and Japan who are smart enough to know an energy deal when they see it?
We, of course, strongly disagee with The Australia Institute’s claim that “it is important to remember that gas is a fossil fuel and its extraction and use are driving climate change”. The institute should abandon that silly narrative and whole-heartedly support so-called “fossil fuel” use like the Trump administration.
The institute, while attacking the giving away of gas, is also stupidly calling for fossil fuel use in Australia to be phased out and kept in the ground. It’s like cutting off your nose to spite your face or what we might also call schizoid economics.
Fossil fuel use is inextricably linked to standard of living, which is why some parts of Africa and South and Central America are still dealing with mass poverty issues (see map above).
It’s not rocket science to work out that if you don’t have internal combustion or electric engine technology readily available in your nation, then you are going to have all sorts of issues in terms of public health, food production and transport and access to goods and services.
But living standards are increasing worldwide which correlates to the chart showing the steadily rising use of coal, gas and oil worldwide. Note also the chart showing the per capita fossil fuel use and see how that correlates to wealthy nations like the US and Australia with food and energy to export.
But Australia could take a lesson from Norway, where the government reaps massive revenues from oil and gas tax revenue – except the part where Norway pushes renewables. Norway is sixth in global per capital wealth and Australia is 16th. We could do much better.
* We use the term “fossil fuel” with reservation as it is increasingly believed that petroleum is the result of subterranean processes, otherwise known as the abiogenic theory of petroleum.
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie… Oi, Oi… Ouch!
“The Australian government just approved Woodside’s gas project extension until 2070, effectively giving them $215 billion worth of gas for free while Aussie punters pay some of the world’s highest energy prices. Corporate media covered it as “activists vs government” drama, completely ignoring that we’re literally handing our wealth to tax-dodging gas cartels who don’t even pay royalties.”
h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNyDFDNIwik
Joe, I can believe the cyclic nature of Ice Ages and have no doubt the climate science is being scammed to suit the narrative these days. I read a book a few years back by Austrian scientist Otto Muck that laid out the asteroid theory in detail. It seems a logical reasoning for much of the climate changes since 8000BC, that is, excluding all the geo-engineering the last 3 decades.
Commenter Rolo
If you look at the graphs the ice age could start trending anytime, giant meteors are random and not cyclic in the same way so the future planning for meteors involves rockets etc. There are fake graphs appearing lately, if you see the temperature going up off the scale they are obviously from the fake climate cult people. These people are invariably on the payroll or connected to payrolled people, may be as lowly as working for the local ultra-left-wing council. The climate temperature is twice as likely to go down as up ( my guess ). It may go down quite slowly, do you remember a type of dinosaur that developed a huge fin on its back to catch the sun. Back then they say climate was 15 degrees warmer. As it cooled the reptiles solar fin would have saved them. Eventually it gets too cold and they are not viable at elephant size, they can never warm up. The biggest remaining lizards are in Indonesia, equatorial ( Komodo dragons ). Everything points to the ice age coming and going but the Globalists plan is disinformation. One of them actually said “everything you believe will be false”.
IT HAS BECOME APPARENT THAT ALL VACINES THAT HAVN’T BEEN ADEQUATELY TESTED IS STILL BEING ALLOWED BY THE CORRUPT FDA.
FDA branded ‘shameful’ over infant meningococcal vaccine approval
Regulator under fire for expanding infant use of meningococcal vaccine—1 in 20 suffered a serious adverse event.
Maryanne Demasi, PhD
Jun 8
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“It’s shameful,” said attorney Aaron Siri of Siri & Glimstad LLP, criticising the FDA’s decision to expand use of the meningococcal vaccine MenQuadfi to infants as young as six weeks.
Previously licensed for children over two, the vaccine is now approved for babies aged 6 weeks to 23 months, based on trials in which infants received up to four doses.
Siri, who has represented families affected by vaccine injury, says the move reflects a broader pattern of weak oversight—where flawed trial designs and circular assumptions are used to justify approvals despite serious safety concerns.
Aaron Siri, an attorney at Siri & Glimstad LLP
Serious adverse events in infants
According to the FDA’s own summary, 5.3% of infants who received MenQuadfi in clinical trials experienced at least one serious adverse event (SAE)—defined as any medical occurrence resulting in death, hospitalisation or disability.
That figure reflects SAEs reported from the first dose through six months after the final dose.
That’s roughly one in every 20 children.
In the comparator group, 3.6% of infants who received Menveo also experienced a serious adverse event during the same period.
Instead of raising concern, the FDA took comfort in the similarity.
The agency concluded that because the rates of serious reactions were “comparable,” the expanded use of the vaccine in infants could be considered safe.
But that logic, Siri argues, is dangerously circular. “Because these rates were ‘similar,’ this product was deemed ‘safe’ by FDA because it assumes Menveo is ‘safe.’”
In the end, Sanofi, the company selling MenQuadfi, chalked up only two cases as possibly related to vaccine—both febrile seizures after the 4th dose, given in combination with MMR, varicella, and PCV13 at 12 months of age.
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A placebo problem
The issue, Siri says, lies in the chain of assumptions.
Menveo wasn’t tested against a true saline placebo. It was compared to Menactra—another meningococcal vaccine. Menactra, in turn, was tested against Menomune.
But Menomune—now discontinued—was never tested against a placebo either.
The final twist?
In a bizarre loop of regulatory logic, the package insert for Menomune cites the clinical trial for Menactra—where Menomune was the comparator—as part of its own safety justification.
“I couldn’t even dream of making this stuff up,” Siri said.
What emerges is a kind of regulatory ouroboros—a snake swallowing its own tail—where each new product is built on the presumed safety of the last, and none are ever measured against a neutral baseline.
The vaccine safety pyramid
“This provides a good example of the vaccine safety pyramid scheme,” said Siri.
“Menomune was licensed without a proper placebo-controlled trial and was then used as the control to license Menactra; Menactra is then used as the control to license Menveo; and then Menveo is used as the control to license MenQuadfi,” he added.
Each step is built on the presumed safety of the one before it—but without any solid foundation. No inert comparator. Just a chain of assumptions.
“Hence, we get a trial with 5.3% and 3.6% of infants suffering serious adverse reactions and no one bats an eye—they grant licensure,” Siri said.
How did the FDA allow this?
Under current FDA guidelines, vaccine manufacturers are not required to use a placebo—an inert substance such as a saline injection—in pre-licensure trials. Instead, “active comparators” such as other vaccines are commonly used.
This practice speeds up approval, especially when companies argue the control group must be “protected” from the disease being targeted.
But critics say it undermines transparency and obscures harms.
If both the test vaccine and the comparator cause adverse events, the trial may appear to show no safety signal—even if the absolute rate of harm is high.
In this case, the FDA accepted the MenQuadfi trial design without requiring a true placebo group—despite the high rate of reported serious events.
Who pays the price?
Since MenQuadfi is already on the CDC schedule for older children, the pharma companies profiting from this product already have liability protection under U.S. vaccine injury laws.
“FDA and pharma have nothing to lose here,” Siri said.
“We, as taxpayers, will pay for all of the harms suffered and, worst of all, the children who are injected and harmed and their families will really pay for the harms,” he added.
It’s not the first time critics have accused the FDA of playing fast and loose with vaccine safety data, especially in the wake of Covid-19.
But this case, Siri argues, is a textbook example of how safety assessments are gamed when it comes to childhood vaccine.
Restoring integrity in vaccine testing
At the heart of Siri’s warning is a plea for scientific integrity.
Without true placebo-controlled trials, he argues, there’s no meaningful way to detect harms—just one untested product being measured against another.
“This isn’t science. It’s a shell game,” he said.
As MenQuadfi rolls out to younger babies, public health officials will no doubt emphasise its potential to prevent a rare but deadly disease.
But advocates like Siri want parents and legislators to understand what’s beneath the product label—not just a vaccine, but a regulatory system that is collapsing under the weight of its own shortcuts.
Joe Bogan, the first part of your post is brilliant.
There is another end of Ice Age theory. There was an asteroid hit the Atlantic Ocean nearby the island nation of Atlantis some 10,000 years ago. It penetrated the Earths crust creating a monumental fountain that ejected 100s millions of tonnes of material into the atmosphere. The finest dust circulated the northern part of the stratosphere for years. Sahara forests gone, top soil in the Middle East washed out to sea, glaciers became rivers under a decade of thick fog, mammoths buried under meters of mud, land bridges underwater etc.
Re our politicians and their lying msm compatriots; they could work together to sort this mess out via legislative and treaty changes. Only joking, they are too self-interested to give a sh*t. Obviously, they must believe the after-life and/or reincarnation are conspiracy theories.
Further to BrianNZ abiotic oil comment:
Fletcher Prouty Explains Invention and Use of Term “Fossil Fuels” ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSff0pwc1Xc
It is very strange how these politicians that give our gas away for free are all getting soooo rich, they can buy multiple mansions for themselves.
Nothing tosee here.
I made a terrible omission in my comment below where I wrote:
“… a bunch of minions who are temporary upper class, these are governors, judges, politicians, top public servants, chiefs of army, cops and such like. These have immunity from things like forced injections …”
I forgot to include Chief Health Officers
Centrica the owner of British Gas has reached a £20bn deal to buy gas from Norway until 2035.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/daily-brief/uk-centrica-strikes-20bn-deal-to-import-gas-from-norway-until-2035/
The wealth of Malaysia comes from PetroNas and is split between a federation of at least 7 kings, maybe twice that number, I don’t know exactly how it works. If you sit at KL airport you can watch all the Lear Jets taking off, they seem to alternate with the AirAsia Boeings for the commoners. Therefore, there are two classes, upper and lower. In Norway, the sovereign wealth fund from StatOil cannot be a secret, it is controlled by the sovereign. The king therefore decides what he will do with it and if any commoners want money for a house deposit or a new car, they are out of luck. In Australia we also have two classes, but the upper class is almost invisible, they are usually in Europe. They have a bunch of minions who are temporary upper class, these are governors, judges, politicians, top public servants, chiefs of army, cops and such like. These have immunity from things like forced injections and special superannuation arrangements including a “Future Fund” cooked up from budget surpluses in the past. This phoney future fund guarantees they can suck out millions from the treasury when they retire. The oil and gas companies who get royalty free oil and gas from Australia are therefore owned by the same people who control our temporary upper class.
Australians are now being rebadged from subjects of the crown to corporate entities, this transfer has been underway especially since ww2 ended: in 1947 all the global deck chairs were rearranged. We went from a system of honourable service ( at least in our imaginations ) to being just numbers, like cattle in a feedlot. You do not own your house or farm, even though you paid the mortgage off. Soon you will not own your money, because you gave the right to that away too ( for convenience ). You do not own your kids, because they take them at birth, inject them and give them a number. Your rights are imaginary and you own nothing already.
Did you imagine you would be allowed to go on forever, making huge traffic jams 4 lanes each way on the freeway, while the upper classes concerned themselves with potentially having to survive the next ice-age, which could come along anytime.
The great flood recorded in the Bible and elsewhere was presumably the effect of the last ice age melting, and we are due to go into another ice-age anytime, these solar cycles being something like 10,000 years. Who knows, 100 years from now the world could be under ice, looking across a variety of data the trend during the last 20 years or so seems to be cooling. At some point the cooling goes exponential and the sun’s thermal output drops to ice-age levels. Our upper classes seem determined to have their bloodlines outlast the next ice-age. They have huge underground bunkers ( refer Jesse Ventura’s documentaries ), plans underway for depopulation, and vast amounts of gold. They have land holdings all over the world. They will be aware of the ancient civilisations which seemed to comfortably survive the last ice-age, equatorial peoples like Aztecs, Persians, Ethiopians, Cambodians, and places where they supposedly drowned like Atlantis, true or not I don’t know but the melting glaciers had to go somewhere.
The King of Norway would be even more acutely aware of these matters or climate than many other vested interests. The actual ancient seat of power in Norway was in Trondheim, which is close to the Arctic circle. The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund will not be going to the citizens, unless by some circumstances it suits the sovereign.
More treason by our political class. I mentioned this treasonous act recently on cairns.org, but I thought more readers would already have known. How is it that there have been no hangings or shootings in the past decades? If it is good enough for Joe Biden, why not some Aussie replication?
And why can’t we also just have government owned corporations that mine the resources and so we keep 100% of the profits?
“The institute should abandon that silly narrative and whole-heartedly support so-called “fossil fuel” use like the Trump administration.”
Yes indeed they should but why does CN refer to an administration led by a despicable, mass murdering LYING psychopath as an example?
No one should believe anything he announces.
We’ll wait and see if he really practices what he promises about so called ‘fossil fuel’ use. His track record for telling lies is appalling, yet many, such as CN editorial staff still eagerly swallow his BS and hopium flavoured Kool-Aid.
WAKE UP. Worshipping false gods and believing their hollow promises and lies is not very productive when trying to restore our freedom and basic human rights and to make our former industrialized society, an easy and pleasant place to exist once again.
First thing is to tell them that they have ripped you off-call out the fraud.
My best source, as you will see if you look, called out Pope Ratzinger (she is related to him by royal bloodlines) over the Birth certificate fraud, and apparently he was going to do something about it, but never got to.
Editor Rob might be a bit cynical about Anna, but at least let me post the article she wrote about what the Catholic (the actual true Church, surprise, surprise!) tried to do to make restitution.
And I must tell you that Anna said, some years ago, said that the Pope needs to pay everyone in the world a thousand bucks a week, as we have all been ripped off big time, and over centuries.
Here goes-and the opening line is:
“The Roman part of the Roman Catholic Church has always been the problem.”
http://annavonreitz.com/churchtriedtodo.pdf
The troublemakers are, according to Anna: The Royal Family, the Vatican (commercial arm of the Roman Church, the BAR Association, and the Banks (surprise, surprise, once again).
Her Lien against the American BAR Association (Rothschild-owned):
http://annavonreitz.com/commerciallien.pdf
In any event, the Australian government corporation cannot deny that they have given away our resources, and must make restitution, as the members of Parliament will all have profited by that gifting, as they would never give away a buck in a fit.
And if the government is a corporation, we must be regarded as shareholders funding their operations, as we pay the taxes and are, most importantly, the source of their credit, and should be given a stock portfolio and a (hopefully substantial) dividend at the end of the financial year.
It might be simpler for them to give every homegrown Aussie a million bucks each, and then straighten up and fly right.
And there is nothing illegal or unlawful about calling it out.
Neville: “Who is responsible for allowing this to happen and do they receive any $$ kickbacks?”
WE are! Who the fk else? lol We LET it happen!!!!!
h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNmeQDOFIuY
“How Australia BLEW Its Chance To Be Worlds Richest Country”
The foreign owned bought and paid for great Australian Uniparty success story… Selling out every Australian over the last 50 years. Big Time!!!
Lucky Country indeed, but more lucky for others than for us. We’ve been fleeced for $$$TRILLIONS$$$ by our very own treacherous slugs and we didn’t give a sht. And we still don’t.
Instead of rolling in clover we’re about to wallow in sht. And for that privilege we’re already ourselves being treated like sht.
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie… Ouch, Ouch Ouch… Anybody home? Anyone awake?
Who is responsible for allowing this to happen and do they receive any $$ kickbacks?
Thankyou brianajnz! I now know thanks to you that gas is driven from Magma & oil is the condensate.
Cairns News is right oil and gas are not fossil and the industry know. They use the term fossil to foster the belief there is a limited supply.
Oil and coal are not dead dinosaurs and decaying forests. oil and gas are abiotic and it has been known for at least a couple of hundred years. The Russians proved it around 1950.
The gas is driven from the magma. The condensate is oil. Through a chemical bacterial action oil can transform into coal hence the reason fuel can be derived from coal.
I doubt one can turn a pine tree into petrol.
Norway’s sovereign fund the largest in the world at $1.6 trillion.
China allegedly have three though have to total them to beat Norway.
Just think where Australia and New Zealand could be if we had State Oil like Norway.
Oil is a mineral fuel, not a fossil fuel, with the earth producing it on a constant basis.
And I told you about the Australia Institute over two years ago, and nailed the then, and now, VIC energy Minister with breach of contract, because I told her staffer that governments are contracted service providers only; that the gas (the issue of the time) belongs to the people of VIC (or the state in question) and that i the gas is not provided to the peopel of whichever state, at a fair and reasonable price, the government is then in breach of contract.
The staffer panicked, and tried to hive me off to the DLWEP-the de facto local government department-to protect the Minister’s arse from the blow torch.
Every Norwegian has soem $325k in their bank account, by the way, all confirmed by Kaja Helspeth, who works at the Norwegian Embassy in Canberra, via an email reply asking for confirmation of the norway Sovereign Wealth Fund-the Wiki entry here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Norway
Damned crooked evil scumbag Government. How dare they destroy hardworking Aussies, they the Government are worse than totally retarded.
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