Revenue forgone from gas export tax since 2022
$0B
It's our gas, we deserve a fair return.

The great
gas scam.

Multinational gas companies are making billions in profit from Australian resources and paying almost nothing back. Norway taxed their gas and built a sovereign wealth fund worth more than $3 trillion. We getting ripped off.

Senator David Pocock is calling for a 25% tax on gas export revenue to deliver a fair return for every Australian.

Petition

Tax our gas. Fund our future.

Australia is one of the world's biggest gas exporters, yet thanks to a broken tax system, the multinational companies shipping our gas overseas pay next to nothing for our offshore gas.

Australians are experiencing rising costs and stretched public services, but gas corporations are posting huge profits and exploiting loopholes to avoid paying their fair share.

We call on the Albanese Government to introduce a 25% tax on gas export revenue, so Australians finally get a fair return from our own resources.

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206 signed Goal: 25000
The comparison that says it all

Norway taxed their gas.
We didn't.

Norway
>$0B
Government Pension Fund Global, the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, built from petroleum tax revenue. Every Norwegian citizen benefits.*
≈ >$530,000 per Norwegian citizen
Australia
–$1,000B
Over $1 trillion in government debt. Little to show from tens of billions of gas exports.
~-$37,000 per Australian citizen
* Norway also carries government debt, but it is far outweighed by the value of their sovereign wealth fund.
Norway's fund keeps growing — ours doesn't exist
$3,000,000,000,000
Estimated value of Norway's Government Pension Fund (live)

The numbers don't lie.

$69B
the amount Australia has forgone in revenue from a 25% tax on gas exports since 2022
The Australia Institute gas tracker
$40–45B
the windfall profits gas companies made in a single year as a result of the invasion of Ukraine
Department of Industry, Science and Resources
24x
Australians pay 24 times as much income tax compared to what the gas industry pays in corporate tax
ATO data
56%
of our gas is sold without a royalty — more than half our national resource, given away
The Australia Institute

Aussies paid more tax on beer
than gas companies paid for offshore gas.

In the current financial year, Australians are expected to pay $2.7 billion in beer excise — while the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT), the tax levied on our offshore gas, will raise just $1.5 billion.

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Beer excise
$0B
Paid by Australian beer drinkers
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Petroleum Resource Rent Tax
$0B
Paid by multinational gas companies
Beer excise — $2.7B
PRRT — $1.5B

Figures from Table 3.3 of the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook 2025–26.

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What would a 25% gas tax deliver?

Drag the slider to see how much revenue a 25% tax on gas exports would generate — and what it could fund.

$80B
Tax revenue
$20.0B
Annual return to Australians
Per person
$755
Per Australian citizen, per year
Could fund
40,000 homes
At ~$500k avg construction cost
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The people vs
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