We’re getting ripped off. The Federal Government collects more revenue from uni students repaying HECS than it does from the entire gas industry. Young people are paying the price for gas greed with our futures. It's time that changed.
Australia is one of the world's biggest gas exporters. The gas industry is profiting from our resources, extracted from First Nations land and sea, and barely paying a cent back to everyday young people. That looks like:
- $350 million of revenue lost every single week
- $780 owed to every adult Australian per year
- $17 billion a year up for grabs if a fair 25% gas tax is introduced
And while gas companies rake in record profits during times of horrific war, young Australians are suffocating under rising rents, soaring grocery bills, student debt, and the worsening impacts of a climate crisis we didn't cause. This goes beyond cost of living issue, the refusal to tax gas companies is about generational injustice.
What we’re demanding
It is simple - we are calling for a 25% tax on gas export revenue, as recommended by thinktanks like The Australia Institute. This would guarantee our resources fund our future.
We want this money to provide:
- Immediate cost-of-living relief: Lower energy bills, fuel cost relief, and economic stability for everyday Australians - right now, not later.
- Long-term investment in our future: A dedicated Climate Compensation Fund - for energy transition, adaptation, resilience, and the communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Managed with genuine youth input, because no decisions about our future should be made without us.
This is about more than tax; the gas tax debate is part of a bigger story about who profits from fossil fuels, who pays, and where the money should go.
The climate crisis has already cost Australian communities billions through floods, fires and drought, while gas corporations have profited from the extraction that drives it. Globally, fossil fuel dependence has fueled geopolitical instability including the US and Israel's war on Iran, where corporations profit from conflict while ordinary people pay for it in fuel prices, food costs and their lives. Climate justice is inseparable from the struggle for economic fairness, peace, and the freedom from militarism and corporate greed.
This gas tax is part of a wider call for polluters to pay up. The industry that spent decades funding climate denial, blocking clean energy, and locking in emissions should be footing the bill for the transition - not young people through HECS debt, not renters through rising bills, not communities rebuilding after climate disasters.
Will you stand with young people and demand the Albanese Government commits to taxing gas corporations for their extraction?
Latest Supporters
We’re getting ripped off. The Federal Government collects more revenue from uni students repaying HECS than it does from the entire gas industry. Young people are paying the price for gas greed with our futures. It's time that changed.
Australia is one of the world's biggest gas exporters. The gas industry is profiting from our resources, extracted from First Nations land and sea, and barely paying a cent back to everyday young people. That looks like:
- $350 million of revenue lost every single week
- $780 owed to every adult Australian per year
- $17 billion a year up for grabs if a fair 25% gas tax is introduced
And while gas companies rake in record profits during times of horrific war, young Australians are suffocating under rising rents, soaring grocery bills, student debt, and the worsening impacts of a climate crisis we didn't cause. This goes beyond cost of living issue, the refusal to tax gas companies is about generational injustice.
What we’re demanding
It is simple - we are calling for a 25% tax on gas export revenue, as recommended by thinktanks like The Australia Institute. This would guarantee our resources fund our future.
We want this money to provide:
- Immediate cost-of-living relief: Lower energy bills, fuel cost relief, and economic stability for everyday Australians - right now, not later.
- Long-term investment in our future: A dedicated Climate Compensation Fund - for energy transition, adaptation, resilience, and the communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Managed with genuine youth input, because no decisions about our future should be made without us.
This is about more than tax; the gas tax debate is part of a bigger story about who profits from fossil fuels, who pays, and where the money should go.
The climate crisis has already cost Australian communities billions through floods, fires and drought, while gas corporations have profited from the extraction that drives it. Globally, fossil fuel dependence has fueled geopolitical instability including the US and Israel's war on Iran, where corporations profit from conflict while ordinary people pay for it in fuel prices, food costs and their lives. Climate justice is inseparable from the struggle for economic fairness, peace, and the freedom from militarism and corporate greed.
This gas tax is part of a wider call for polluters to pay up. The industry that spent decades funding climate denial, blocking clean energy, and locking in emissions should be footing the bill for the transition - not young people through HECS debt, not renters through rising bills, not communities rebuilding after climate disasters.
Will you stand with young people and demand the Albanese Government commits to taxing gas corporations for their extraction?
Latest Supporters
