The numbers are clear:
IT’S
YOUR
SHOUT,
GAS.
Australia's gas exporters are making billions selling our resources overseas. They're paying less tax than beer drinkers. Here's how that's possible — and why it has to change.
Your Shout, Gas
Australia's gas exporters pay around 6% in total taxes on exporting our gas — across every tax type combined. A tradie pays 24%. A nurse pays 22%. Even a student pays more. It's their shout. Time they stepped up.
HOW IT WORKS.
Australia's gas belongs to all of us. When companies dig it up and sell it overseas, they're supposed to pay a resource rent tax — the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax, or PRRT — as their contribution for using what's ours.
The idea is simple: if you're making a profit from Australian resources, you pay Australia back a fair share.
The reality? They're paying 6%. That's not just the resource rent tax — it's everything. Corporate tax, state royalties, PRRT, the lot. Six per cent, all up.
In 2025–26, the government collected $2.7 billion from beer excise — the tax Australians pay every time they buy a drink. It collected $1.5 billion from the PRRT on gas exports. Less than beer. From companies making billions in profit, exporting resources that belong to every Australian.
Their own industry confirmed it at Senate Estimates. The government's own Treasury confirmed it. Senator Canavan tried to dispute it. Treasury didn't back him up.
A tradie pays around 24 cents in the dollar. A nurse pays around 22. Even a student pays more. Australia's gas exporters pay 6. Less than everyone at the bar.
That's not a tax system working for Australians. That's a round that never comes.
Add your name. Tell Australia's gas exporters it's time to step up.
RECKON IT'S THEIR SHOUT?
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