"Reckon They've Forgotten About The Whole Gas Tax Thing Yet" Albo Asks Staffers

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As revelations swirl that the Labor government has rolled out its very own version of Sports Rorts, the Prime Minister has today asked his team for lay of the land.

With Pauline's Super (aka wage rise replacement) policy generating a bit of noise on social and mainstream media platforms, Anthony Albanese has reportedly sought out a sense check on a hot button issue from a few months back.

"Did we just get away with the gas tax thing," laughed the PM to his staffers.

"Like has everyone just forgotten about it or have people online and in the media just forgotten about it?"

Albanese's questions come as the lighting rod discussion of a gas tax on multinational tax dodging corporation's pillaging the nation's resources, fades into the distance.

Growing to a fever pitch just before the Federal Budget in May, the issue had been one of the real life unicorns that united Greens and One Nation Voters - with fairly broad support across the political spectrum for a tax on our gas, which generates more for the Japanese government than our own.

However, with millions of dollars and countless hours poured into the anti-gas tax debate from powerful companies and lobbyists, the government managed to white knuckle their way through and manage to keep sitting on their hands.

Speaking exclusively to The Advocate a short time ago, the Prime Minister explained that the non-use of the 'Gas Trigger' over the last 4 years put them in good stead.

"Yeah, when you consider that we have a tool we can use that ensures gas companies keep enough gas on the East Coast to not completely fuck power prices because they sell it overseas," began the PM.

"And every now and then people bring it up, but we just say it would create issues with the market and people lose interest."

"That left us with the knowledge that people won't see the course on a gas tax."

"Which is great, because it would cause us some political headaches if we had to actually bring in a tax, or way to generate more revenue off gas, like all the other countries in the world with heaps of gas have had for decades."