Sold DownThe River
How Australia's fuel security was traded away, refinery by refinery, donation by donation. Diesel at $3.17 a litre. Thirty days of reserves. Two refineries left. And the people who let it happen are still in the room.
Thirty days of diesel. That's the gap between normal and a country that can't move.
Independent • No Bullshit
Who Do You TrustTo Protect Australia?
One vote. No party lines. Just gut feeling.
The MissingReports
The Settlement Engagement and Transition Support program burned through $579 million while failing to report nearly all critical incidents, including deaths in its care. Meanwhile, political donors profited from the detention industry.
Five hundred and seventy-nine million dollars. Not one critical incident officially reported. Someone decided silence was easier.
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The DonationPipeline
Fossil fuel companies donated $3.98 million to Australia's two major parties in a single year. Ministers who let refineries close now sit on the boards of the companies that benefited. Every time, the policy outcomes aligned with the donors' interests.
They didn't buy policy. They bought the people who write it.
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Six Refineries.Nobody Said Stop.
Australia had eight oil refineries. Now it has two. Six shut down between 2003 and 2021. Not one closure was blocked, challenged, or meaningfully debated by any government of either party. The same words, every time: commercial decision for the company.
Six closures. Two parties. Zero objections. That's not a coincidence — that's a pattern.
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The DebtLoading Scam
Chevron borrowed at 1.2%, lent to itself at 8.9%, and shifted billions offshore as tax-deductible interest. The Federal Court caught them. The industry didn't stop. Santos has paid zero corporate tax on $50 billion in sales. Beer excise collects more than Chevron, Exxon, Woodside and Shell combined.
Beer excise raises more than Chevron, Exxon, Woodside and Shell combined. Read that again.
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