Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The gas companies have been ripping us off for years—not just in the last three weeks that this conflict has been underway; they have been ripping off Australians for years. And it's just gotten a whole lot worse, now that we see them making blood money off this terrible war—profiteering from the conflict, price gouging and doing whatever they can to make massive profits while everybody else suffers.

Gas companies pay less tax than most Australians. They pay less than nurses. Nurses pay more tax than the gas companies—there's nothing fair about that. Teachers pay double in tax what gas companies do. Students with their HECS debts pay more than the gas companies do. Heavens above! Every time you go to the pub and buy a beer, you pay more tax than the gas companies do. It is an absolute rort. Australians are feeling the pressure more than ever because of this bloody war from President Trump, who is doing this for his own ego and for his own power. He's in cahoots with the fossil fuel companies. They think it's great because they're making massive profits—blood money at the expense of everybody else.

This terrible war is pushing up the prices of everyday things and making life even harder for Australians. It makes us less safe, and it makes it harder to make ends meet. It is just appalling that, when people are suffering, the gas companies are profiteering off this bloody, tragic war.