Mark A Gregory markagregory.bsky.social

500,000 Australian homes can't access the NBN. They're stuck with private networks like @OpticommAU, far weaker protections, and no real recourse when things go wrong. Our CEO Carol Bennett to @abcnews: "What you see is a lot of buck passing and finger pointing, and nobody taking responsibility." The ACCC is reviewing its model. We'll be watching.

Breaking - the PM has asked for modelling on a potential new gas tax. That's great news! And, fortunately, we've released analysis on the topic just this morning. Read more: theaus.in/4lACKHa

I asked the Treasurer for this in Question Time last week. Woodside and Santos are set to make massive profits from our oil and gas internationally, while Australians are struggling to afford petrol, gas, diesel, and electricity. We have to immediately change our tax settings to support Australians and get a fair return on our finite national resources. abc.net.au/news/2026-03-2…

If the Albanese government had introduced a 25% gas export tax when it was first elected, it would have raised more than $63 billion! Free childcare or free uni shouldn't be a pipe dream. If big gas paid their fair share, Australians would be better off. @GrogsGamut #auspol

Japan, South Korea and Singapore are heavily reliant on Australian LNG (and even more so noting Qatar’s LNG is now unavailable). Australia is heavily reliant on Japanese, South Korean and Singaporean refined fuel. I hope our diplomats are thinking what I’m thinking. #auspol

The Australien Government has made an ad about Alcoa strip-mining the Northern Jarrah Forest and it's surprsingly honest and informative. #auspol #alcoa

A pause on immigration (population growth) would not only ease cost of living pressures, but also ease pressure on roads, housing, schools, hospitals, energy, water & biodiversity. But oh no... mass immigration must remain a lock-in, with no end date given! #LiveWithinLimits

The gas cartel has swiftly rolled out a campaign to preserve their wartime profits from OUR gas. @AlboMP has the numbers in the House and the support of Greens in the Senate to ensure struggling Aussies benefit from high international gas prices. #auspol theguardian.com/australia-news…

Australia Institute research shows a 25% tax on gas exports could solve the gas crisis – and raise $17 billion every year at the same time! Australians are tired of the gas industry not paying its fair share of taxes and royalties. #auspol

@LiberalAus needed to move to the centre, but did not; failing to understand that #australians will vote for #onenation if @LiberalAus and @The_Nationals move to the right with really dumb policies that only help foreign multinationals and the rich. a flogging in #SA, go figure

Looks like the government might finally be caving to the pressure myself, others on the crossbench & especially Australians in communities across the country have been putting on them to tax gas companies making wartime profits. Australians are already paying more on petrol & we shouldn’t be paying more on beer excise than the government gets for Petroleum Resources Rent Tax (PRRT). It’s encouraging to see Treasury modelling changes to the way gas is taxed. We should have a flat 25% tax on all gas exports & enough gas exports diverted into an east coast gas reservation & we need both now. abc.net.au/news/2026-03-2…

Minister @AnikaWells has today announced details of a full review of #TripleZero rules, led by the Triple Zero Custodian, drawing on outages, the 3G switchover and device issues. About 85% of 000 calls are now made on mobiles. The rules need to catch up.

Australia Institute Deputy Director Ebony Bennett asks The People's Economist Gary Stevenson, why don't Government's tax wealth properly? Listen to Follow the Money for more from Gary: theaus.in/4rM2fYh

Mass immigration is the economic policy you have, when you've run out of ideas, ... & care nothing for the people & ecosystems it impacts. population.org.au/sign-the-spa-p…

Telcos or fruit salad? 🍎 Every telco in Australia measures coverage differently. The @acccgovau gave up trying to compare them. This is what telcos and @acmadotgov calls plain language on their coverage map. It should not be this hard. 🔗 accan.org.au/policysubmissi…

Gas companies that export 🇦🇺 gas are about to make windfall profits after strikes on Iran & we have no plan to capture that value for Australians. To fix this, we need a 25% tax on gas exports that would raise billions of dollars of revenue and ensure that when prices rise, Aussies benefit. theguardian.com/australia-news…

Rightly, Jim Chalmers floats negative gearing and CGT reform, but with what's coming it won't be enough to fix budget and housing. Good read @MichaelPascoe01 #auspol #AI michaelwest.com.au/were-going-to-…

“The national capital city median rose 9.5% in the last 12 months. More than double wages - so housing affordability reached a new record level of terrible. The ratio of house prices to wages is now 3x what it was when the Prime Minister was born.”

Why be a departmental secretary on just $2740 per day ($1M per annum) when you can be a recalled departmental secretary on $5000 a day? It’s your money … and Dennis Richardson’s ‘Bondi bounty’. #CostOfLivingCrisis #FOI #auspol michaelwest.com.au/bondi-beach-bo…

Canada is expecting zero population growth in 2026, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, as the federal immigration plan is to cut temporary work and student visas from 674,000 in 2025 to 385,000 in 2026. The plan also sets a target of 380,000 permanent residents annually for 2026 to 2028, with two one-time programs to fast-track permanent residency for 148,000 non-permanent residents for the next two years. In other words, many of our new permanent residents for 2026 and 2027 are already here as non-permanent residents. So the good news is that the population will stabilize for 2026. But then it will grow by 0.3% in 2027 and at 0.8% annually thereafter. However, if the government really believe in protecting Canada’s environment and conserving its farmland, its goal would be population stabilization and eventual contraction. Japan is doing it successfully. We could too, if we could abandon the forever-growth mindset. cbc.ca/news/politics/…