The Australia Institute - Big Gas is Taking the Piss 30"

A powerful new campaign from The Australia Institute, one of the country’s most influential public policy think tanks, is taking direct aim at the gas industry’s exploitation of Australians and our economy.

Aimed at promoting Institute research, the campaign is designed to highlight the many ways ‘Big Gas is taking the piss’, including: 

- Exporting 80% of Australia’s gas and then telling us there’s a shortage

- Paying zero royalties on more half of the gas they export

- Price gouging us for our own gas – driving gas and electricity prices up to three times higher since exports began.

- Using the gas shortages that they’re creating to push our governments into approving massive new gas export projects, like the North West Shelf project in Australia.

The campaign has been developed in partnership with Australian performing artist and political advocate, John Butler, who was keen to set the record straight about Big Gas’s true economic contribution to the country.