Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) | Hansard source

Flip a coin. Heads—they win. Tails—you lose. That is the story about you and some of Australia's biggest, most profitable mining corporations. While you are paying more for fuel, multibillion-dollar mining companies are not. They are getting a completely free ride with completely tax-free fuel, and that special deal is not available to you. Your government takes your taxes and hands over more and more of your money every year to massively profitable mining corporations to help them burn fossil fuels that are causing climate collapse. Heads—they win. Tails—you lose. Your money goes to big corporations to burn cheap fuel that you don't get access to, which causes climate change, which is pushing up your food costs, which is pushing up your insurance costs and which is increasing the cost of cleaning up after floods and bushfires that are made worse by this entire scam.

Australia's most profitable corporation, BHP, was paid $627 million of your money in just one year. Rio Tinto got $416 million of your money in just one year. They can burn cheaper fuel than you get access to—tax-free fuel that you don't get. This corporate welfare has to end. The billions of dollars that Labor is giving these massively profitable mining corporations should be put into allowing us all to have more of the things that we used to be able to afford. Vote Greens. Heads—you win. Tails—they lose.