Four Legs Good, Royalties Bad: The Barnyard Blueprint for Tax-Free Resource Plunder!
PART 2 ~ Follows Animal Farm 2.0 ~ Continues the Dystopian Nightmare from George Orwell's famous Political Satire about How a Parasitic Greedy Minority Feather their Own Nests!
The recent ALP Budget continues to run into a Debt-ridden Quagmire. Radical NDIS cuts, carve-outs & exposés about Mining Sector Diesel Fuel rebates that are not offered to the farmers who feed us.
About $45 billion in refunds are forecast to be paid over the next four years under the Fuel Tax Credit scheme, which is designed to refund businesses for tax paid on the fuel used by heavy vehicles or off public roads.
The Inland Railway Plans stretching from Melbourne via Parkes all the way to Brisbane is just another sound infrastructure plan that has «fallen off the rails,» due to « Budget Cuts.»
Budget Cuts ~ It’s About Money ~ Stupid!
Which brings us back to generating money from Australian Assets.
Now, where could we ever find such useful piles of money to Get Stuff Done?
NOTE: Petroleum exploration in Australia has all but ceased since 2019!
Below is a graph of all the royalties and taxes paid by the «fossil fuel industries» over the same time period.
NOTE: The Oil & Gas taxes and royalties are minuscule from 2013-14 to 2021-22, and ZERO from 2022-2024.
Aussies are Waking Up to this Piracy
I featured Konrad Benjamin ~ a.k.a. Pundits Politics ~ in earlier reports.
Here is another one of his calls to Get This Fixed!
Video Transcript ~ Begins at 00:07 minutes;
Konrad Benjamin:
« We knew that the government wasn’t going to pass a 25% gas export tax because let’s face it, both major parties are bought and sold paid for quite literally by the gas lobby. But here’s some good news, punters. The good news is is that this isn’t going anywhere.
This is just the beginning. And any politician over the last couple of weeks who has been dumb enough to stick their head up above the little bunker there and going to bat for foreign-owned gas bludger corporations is getting absolutely smoked online in their comment section.»
Video transcript ~ begins at 04:31 minutes:
Konrad:
« They’re trying to treat their own voters like idiots. This is Facebook.
And now, surprisingly, Matty Canavan has over 200,000 followers on Facebook.
I don’t even have that many. So, props to you, Matty.
But none of them are buying it. I can’t find anything.»
Video Transcript ~ begins at 07:47 minutes:
Konrad is scrolling through comments on Facebook pages.Konrad: « This is the latest post from today. Anthony Albanese trying to spruik his budget and how it’s going to help people and all these things. And you click on every single post he’s got. And what do we have? Oh, young Australians shouldn’t have to rent [clears throat] forever.
Yeah, cool. Cool. But maybe try taxing gas. Tax gas. Tax gas. Tax gas. Tax gas.
Tax the gas. Very true. Now tax gas. The bludgers. This is not a coordinated campaign. I’m not heading this thing up and telling everyone to post.
People have just jumped on board, seen me comment on a few different things and gone like the comments are literally endless and they’re all tax gas gas next.»« Tax the gas you donkeys. »
« Albo is shutting down comments because this is all anyone wants to see.
We don’t care about your little tinkering around the edges with your little budget.We’re sick of being told that budgets are difficult cuz we don’t have enough money. And no matter how far you scroll down, there is always a commenter saying tax gas, tax gas, tax gas on every single post at random. This one, tax gas, tax gas button. Almost 1,000 likes on that one.
So punters, keep it up because we are not letting this go and we will not let it rest until he loses his seat.»
Confessions of an Economic Hitman ~ John Perkins
Once-upon-a-time, author John Perkins worked as an economist for the US Consulting Firm, Chas T Main.
John Perkins ~ original 2004 book, with the newer updated 2016 edition ~ New York Times Bestsellers.
Here is a synopsis of Perkins’ Book, by Claude AI.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is a 2004 semi-autobiographical book in which Perkins alleges that, during his tenure as an economist at the consulting firm Chas. T. Main from 1971 to 1981, he fabricated economic growth projections to induce developing countries to accept massive loans from institutions like the World Bank and US agencies for infrastructure projects that enriched Western corporations while ensnaring nations in debt they could not repay, thereby granting geopolitical influence to the United States. [reference = Wordpress]
Perkins says that he was an “economic hit man” for ten years, helping US intelligence agencies and multinational corporations cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving US foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business. After several years struggling internally over the role he was playing in crippling foreign economies, he quit his consulting job. [reference = Cis]
The Playbook: How Economic Hit Men Operated
EHMs like Perkins were tasked to convince developing countries to accept massive loans for infrastructure development. Upon agreeing, these countries found themselves buried in debt that was impossible to repay. In Perkins’ own words, EHMs like him were tasked to “cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars.” Target countries were selected based on their resources that corporations could exploit. [ref. Michael West Media]
The process followed a deliberate three-stage escalation:
Stage 1 — The Economic Hit Man. EHMs enticed leaders to accept loans for large infrastructure projects such as hydroelectric dams and energy facilities. Once nations were unable to repay, they were pressured into selling natural resources at low prices to US companies. [ref. Substack]
Stage 2 — The Jackals. When EHMs were unable to encourage a bad deal, CIA “jackals” took over through assassination, coup d’état, and other clandestine methods. Perkins references the suspicious plane crashes of President Torrijos of Panama and Jaime Roldos of Ecuador, citing their resistance to the ambitions of the US government and corporations. [ref. Paradigm Shift]
Stage 3 — Military Force. If the jackals also failed, the US military would step in as the final instrument of enforcement.
Source: Claude AI
This 2021 report by Callum Foote from Michael West Media explains;
« In 2019-20, the fossil fuel industry earned $115 billion from selling Australia’s petroleum and coal resources and paid state and federal governments an estimated $7.3 billion in royalties.
One year later (in 2020-21), the industry received more than $10.7 billion in subsidies, according to a report released by The Australia Institute based on state budget papers.
It appears that federal and state governments pay billions of dollars more in subsidies to multinational fossil fuel miners than they pay in royalties to governments.
In a research report for the Neroli Storytelling Colvin Foundation published last week, Michael West Media calculated that powerful mining lobby Minerals Council of Australia and its experts from Deloitte had exaggerated tax and royalties payments by $45 billion over ten years. The report found a return of less than 10% to the owners of the minerals – the Australian public – on $2.1 trillion in mining exports.»
The Middle East Wars have resulted in this expose by ABC Four Corners & ABC News;
« About $45 billion in refunds are forecast to be paid over the next four years under the Fuel Tax Credit scheme, which is designed to refund businesses for tax paid on the fuel used by heavy vehicles or off public roads.
And a large chunk of that goes to mining companies.
Clean Energy Finance has estimated that BHP received about $627 million in fuel tax credits in the 2024 financial year, Rio Tinto $416 million, Fortescue $309 million and Hancock Prospecting $128 million, which is paid as compensation for the taxes paid on diesel used on private roads.»
Why Australia Must Get Resource Royalties
The Middle East Wars continue, despite all of the rhetoric since they began on 28th February 2026. Whilst several pundits have been claiming for over 3 months that the warring parties are «Close to a Deal,» nothing could be further from the truth.
Not only has the Strait of Hormuz been choked off, there has been extensive damage to the Oil & Gas infrastructure of the Gulf States, compromising their export capabilities.
Take Home Messages
Australians must support MPs who ensure that we Reap our Just Resource Rewards.
Do not allow distractions from the Main Event ~ Funding for Our Future.
Australia now has a $1 TRILLION Deficit ~ this can only be Reduced with a Stable Income & Economy.
Our future existence depends upon securing our Oil & Gas Bonanza ~ for Aussies.