Craig Pickering - Empowering Community Voices

23/05/2026

Please sign! It is your money the government is wasting!

No Tax Office Tower on Adelaide’s Festival Plaza, Adelaide's city square and civic heart.

22/05/2026

Mr Albanese was interviewed on radio during a post-budget trip to Perth, during which he claimed that “gas companies paid $22 billion of tax last year”.

The $22 billion figure is not an official estimate by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), but a figure produced by a gas lobby group.

In the same radio interview, Prime Minister Albanese went on to claim the push for a gas export tax was “a social media campaign”.

Dr Richard Denniss, co-CEO of The Australia Institute, says that claim is disingenuous.

“Leaving aside the fact that many ordinary Australians express themselves through social media, what is most surprising about Mr Albanese’s comments is that he seems to be unaware that calls for an export tax came first from the Australian Council of Trade Unions,” he said.

Dr Denniss also hit back at the Prime Minister’s suggestion that The Australia Institute’s support for the ACTU’s proposed 25% gas export tax was somehow not “fair dinkum”.

“I can assure the Prime Minister that The Australia Institute is fair dinkum in our calls for Australians to get a fair return for our gas,” he said.

Read the full piece on The Point: https://thepoint.com.au/news/260522-pm-parrots-gas-lobby-misinformation-while-gas-export-tax-gathers-momentum

22/05/2026

Why did people expect any different from a party that always says one thing and then does the exact opposite?

22/05/2026

Key government departments are falling dramatically short of their legal obligations under country’s Freedom of Information standards, with a damning report by the Auditor-General finding nearly 80 per cent of their FOI decisions were to refuse access to information in part or full. Read more: https://bit.ly/4nBIFg6

21/05/2026

The State Government is proposing to build 4-6 storey aged care facilities in the Hills Face Zone.

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21/05/2026

19/05/2026

And we lobbied to host COP31??

We would have been the laughing stock of a worldwide audience.