💧Rosemary Nankivell

our very best farming country is going to be sacrificed to keep #Santos exporting gas #chequebookpolicy @JohnBarilaroMP Thanks to Minister for Agriculture Adam Marshall for understanding the value of prime agricultural land.

At what point do us farmers just throw our hands up and park everything for a while? This is an honest question because the price of fuel is way too high along with fertilizer, seed, equipment, and insurance. It’s just not fun anymore #Agtwitter #AgX #farming #agriculture

Great commercial. Thanks to @TheAusInstitute and @DavidPocock for elevating this.

New Australia Institute polling shows more than three in five Australians support a flat 25% tax on gas exports! "We have got corporations making windfall war profits while people's energy prices are going up. It is indefensible." - Senator @stephhodginsmay #auspol

Major parties happy to spend hundreds of billions on submarines they hope we'll get in the 2030s and 40s for national security reasons, but we haven't seen the same investments into fuel security. So 🇦🇺 is exposed to global price shocks when there’s conflict overseas. Investing more in electrification would cut costs and strengthen our resilience, but it has to be done in a way that benefits every household. abc.net.au/news/2026-03-2…

Will a 25% gas export tax cause higher inflation? No, it will lower inflation. Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/factchecks/260…

@TonyHWindsor @susan_taylor07 Great News!

Some personal news. My wife Lyn has been taken off chemotherapy after four years of treatment for AML leukaemia. Very proud of her and grateful to the Specialists and Staff at the amazing Haematology Unit at Newcastle Mater Hospital. Thankyou to everyone who have been so kind. Minister @Mark_Butler_MP it would be worthwhile to look at their regional delivery model.

Why is it the miners are not saying anything about the diesel situation, but farmers are rationed? Some wanker not telling us the truth about the fuel situation?

Foreign Minister Wong and Minister for #Woodside King both ruled out a 25% tax on Labors biggest donors’ #Woodside #Santos and #Inpexin #qt Labor believe War profits for their mates is more important that food on Australian families plates. #LaborLNPCoalition #TaxTheGas

The very real risk of a fuel, fertiliser, adblue and farm chemical crisis on Australia's food security. Former military leader, John Blackburn talks to the Country Hour about the risks facing Australia's food if we don't better protect ourselves: abc.net.au/listen/program…

Write to your MP asking them to immediately pause logging in known #greaterglider stronghold forests. forestalliancensw.org.au/citizen-science Citizen science is helping protect endangered greater gliders, but Forestry Corp logging is driving species extinction! #ProtectHabitats #nswpol

The global energy crisis will enable oil and gas companies to make huge profits, which we won’t benefit from because our main fossil fuel tax, the PRRT, is so poorly designed. In a cost of living crisis, the govt should immediately legislate to get a fair share of windfall profits from our oil and gas for all Australians.

Luckily The Australia Institute can help! Last year the Australian Government gave the fossil fuel industry $16.3 billion of taxpayers money, $31,000 a minute, more than it spends on our airforce. Link to research in 🧵👇 abc.net.au/news/science/2…

The Govt should quickly introduce an immediate tax of at least 50% on the extra revenue companies earn from war-driven price spikes. Supernormal profits for resource companies in wartime aren’t a reward for innovation or investment, they’re simply windfalls created by conflict.

Gomeroi People v Santos NSW Pty Ltd and Santos NSW on now! Lawyers argue that Conditions do not guarantee that the gas will be sold domestically - the main argument used for public benefit. #YanaaySantos youtube.com/live/mde3OP7-s… via @YouTube

Evidence presented in the Gomeroi People v Santos NSW Pty Ltd and Santos NSW (Narrabri) appeal show how @SantosdLtd underestimated fugitve gas emissions by a factor of 10x #YanaaySantos youtube.com/live/mde3OP7-s… via @YouTube

No journalist should ever be fired for speaking truth to power. It’s literally their job.

The less renewables and EV’s, the more Australia is over the barrel of global oil and gas prices. They’re also cool with exporting 90% of our coal and 80% of our gas. Just remember that next time there is a global disruption.. like maybe even next week… and we get slammed.

As Australians drive into service stations that have either jacked up prices or closed because they’ve sold out of fuel, as interest rates increase because of inflation that has nowhere to go but up, Australians will be wondering why the Australian government was so swift to support the illegal attacks on Iran by our foremost ally instead of condemning them. It is easy to see how quickly this war is going to reach our shores. The closing of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran and the Red Sea by the Houthis coupled with the shut down of gas and oil facilities in Gulf countries combined with Australia’s complete lack of appropriate strategic planning inevitably will have devastating effects on our economy. Our principal strategic partner and its genocidal ally have over a matter of days undermined the entire global economic system. Europe will be forced to buy gas from Russia and it won’t be at a concessional price. Iran will permit Russian and Chinese ships through the Strait of Hormuz so they’re not choked off completely and there are land links between China and Iran and China and Russia in any case. Russia and China will be affected but not to an extent approaching what is likely to be the catastrophic consequences facing the US, Europe, India, Australia and other Western economies. The US and Israel will continue to claim they have the upper hand militarily (noting that Israel is not permitting journalists to report on strikes that have hit Israel). The reality is that US and Israel have greater quantities of more sophisticated weaponry BUT NO EFFECTIVE STRATEGY. Iran obviously is following a carefully pre-planned response to the attacks – which it articulated clearly and publicly– that it always knew was coming. Its success so far suggests that it will win the war of attrition and soon begin to pummel Israel and US and Israeli assets in the Gulf when the interceptor supplies run out. Iran is linked into Chinese and Russian military technology which means eyes in the sky give it precision targeting data and forewarning of any incoming threat. The stupidity of Operation Epic Fury is magnified by the lunacy of assassinating Iran’s Supreme Leader with the inevitable consequence of uniting millions of Shia Muslims in all surrounding Gulf countries and beyond. Although I detested the repressive actions of Iran’s Supreme Leader – and its government - it was he who issued the fatwa prohibiting Iran from producing, holding or using nuclear weapons. Let us hope and pray that an unhinged and unharnessed Israel and US don’t unleash nuclear Armageddon when their backs are to the wall. Their aggression and duplicity have put Iran in a position where it effectively has no choice but to continue the war. And to think this was a war of choice and entirely avoidable. Every war is a war on children! Every. Single. One. #auspol #internationallaw #legalobligations #AUKUS #endthealliance

Australians really dislike the unfettered access lobbyists have to politicians in Parliament House. Every day Parliament sits, hundreds of lobbyists roam its halls. We can't know which Ministers they meet with, or how they influence government decision-making. The PM has announced a review of lobbyists activities in Parliament House - that's good - but the review will only canvas the opinions of insiders who work in government. The inquiry should be open for public submissions. It's the people's House, and the people should have some say in what goes on within it. theguardian.com/australia-news…

Net zero? Fertiliser production stopped in Brisbane because our exorbitant domestic gas prices made it financially infeasible to continue, despite Qld being a major gas producer, one of the biggest in the world. And that my dear is because both sides of politics failed to put a domestic gas reservation policy in place, which meant domestic gas prices trebled once LNG exports started ex Gladstone and became linked to volatile international pricing. Nothing to do with Net Zero.