Is Australia missing out on a proper gas tax because the mining lobby scared Labor off before Budget night?

Michael West reports that Labor was looking at winding back diesel fuel rebates for big miners and taxing gas exporters, before both ideas suddenly junked. An insider told MWM that “We can’t afford another fight with BHP” echoing the campaign that helped bring down Kevin Rudd in 2010.

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00:00 Is this why Australia has no gas tax?
03:12 BHP’s diesel rebate billions
07:18 Madeleine King rules it out
09:16 Labor backs away from gas tax
12:02 The mining lobby playbook
13:17 Pauline Hanson’s gas plan
15:15 Cricket Australia conflict scandal
15:39 Private health profiteering