{"id":37526,"date":"2026-02-19T15:31:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T04:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=37526"},"modified":"2026-02-19T15:31:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T04:31:32","slug":"support-grows-for-a-tax-on-gas-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/support-grows-for-a-tax-on-gas-exports\/","title":{"rendered":"Support grows for a tax on gas exports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/media.greens.org.au\/t\/y-i-atlkko-l-y\/\">polling&nbsp;<\/a>shows support across party lines for a tax on gas exports, a policy proposed by the Australian Council of Trade Unions and backed by the Australian Greens last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During Senate Estimates last week, Greens spokesperson for resources Senator Steph Hodgins-May asked Minister Ayres whether a gas export tax was under consideration as part of the government\u2019s gas market review. No advice had been prepared that he was aware of.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 25 per cent levy on gas exports would prioritise domestic supply without incentivising new fossil fuel projects, and would replace the deeply flawed Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT), which has failed to deliver meaningful returns from LNG exporters due to structural loopholes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Revenue raised could help compensate households for price impacts driven by exports and accelerate Australia\u2019s transition away from gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Senator Steph Hodgins-May<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe government\u2019s proposed gas reservation policy won\u2019t guarantee lower prices and it locks in unnecessary new gas projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Greens won\u2019t support it without a meaningful tax on gas exports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGas prices have tripled since LNG exports began, yet the companies driving those exports contribute next to nothing in tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis polling shows voters across the political spectrum are fed up with a system that puts multinational gas exporters ahead of Australian households.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn what world does it make sense that nurses, teachers or retail workers pay more tax than some of the world\u2019s largest gas exporters?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA tax on gas exports would redirect supply back to Australians, raise revenue to ease cost-of-living pressures, and help us move off gas without opening new climate-damaging projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt beggars belief that Labor still won\u2019t stand up to the gas giants and tax them properly,&nbsp; while claiming to be serious about cutting energy bills and securing a safe climate future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New&nbsp;polling&nbsp;shows support across party lines for a tax on gas exports, a policy proposed by the Australian Council of Trade Unions and backed by the Australian Greens last year. During Senate Estimates last week, Greens spokesperson for resources Senator Steph Hodgins-May asked Minister Ayres whether a gas export tax was under consideration as part of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/support-grows-for-a-tax-on-gas-exports\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Support grows for a tax on gas exports&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37527,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37526\/revisions\/37527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}