Labor Government With A 94-Seat Majority Extremely Frustrated By Calls For Them To Simply Introduce A Natural Resources Windfall Tax That The Entire Nation Demands And Expects

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ACT Senator David Pocock has struck a chord with Australian voters this month, as he receive a wave of support from both the left and right of politics over his proposed plan to tax Australia's natural resources at 25%.

Not since John Howard banned mentally unwell people from owning semi-automatic firearms in 1997 has Australia faced a political cause with such support from all sides of our nation's politics.

Poey has been blasting the government to help struggling Australian families by collecting more tax from fuel exports. Most of which are dug up and drilled by multinational corporations who pay less tax than Australians pay for draught beer through the Federal beer excise tax.

However, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has dismissed Pocock by saying he is seeking “to promote grievance” - like some sort of woke leftie?

This is a bizarre take, especially from the government who is run by Labor heavyweights who all claim to be progressives.

The Albanese government's reluctance to introduce a windfall tax on Australia's natural resources is more likely a result of the gas industry's powerful lobby groups already entering Parliament House with special swipe cards to fight any plans to introduce a 25% export levy on windfall profits.

This week, Pocock revealed that if this tax was introduced at the start of the Russia and Ukraine war, Australia could have earnt over $60 billion dollars in “wartime profits” amid the global energy crisis.

The current demands for better pay and conditions from stiking ABC workers, Victorian teachers, and NSW healthcare workers would make up a percentage of what the windfall tax could have pulled in.

Still the government has gone ahead and asked the Federal Treasury to draft up plans about what such a tax would look like, along with any further changes to the petroleum resource rent tax (PRRT) and corporate income tax.

But still, they reject this idea because it has come from somebody outside of their party, and worse, it's come from a jock - who has proven to be better than them at being a nerd.

Pocock's freedom to stand for the things that Labor MPs used to stand for, is caused extreme frustration within the Federal cabinet, as the frontbench ministers are painfully aware that their entire party has been captured by the same fossil fuel lobbyist that used to puppetteer the Liberal Party.