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In part 1 of a 12 minute interview, Tim Buckley gives a comprehensive breakdown of the positive energy transition initiatives in the 2022 budget, as well as the omissions and missed opportunities. Read more

Tim Buckley comments on the Federal Budget, including its lack of attention to tackling the revenue costs of fossil fuel subsidies. Read more

Tim Buckley writes that the federal budget is pragmatic and aligned with the government’s positive energy transition commitments. However, the absence of any meaningful, long overdue fossil fuel tax reform, which would generate revenue to offset the power price hyperinflation smashing Australians, is a major omission. Read more

With Woodside reporting soaring revenues today – a 272% jump on the same quarter last year to $US5.86 billion ($9.3 billion) – CEF’s August report on an improved tax regime that would ensure fossil fuel profiteers pay their fair share comes back into focus Read more

Tim Buckley notes that a ‘small number of fossil fuel-exporting companies are making windfall gains,’ making the case for a Queensland-style progressive royalties system in NSW. Read more

Tim Buckley is interviewed by Elysse Morgan on CEF’s Windfall Profits report: “Everyone in eastern Australia is paying record high prices for energy. Let’s make sure the ‘winners’ from Putin’s war on Ukraine – the fossil fuel multinationals – actually pay some tax and help absorb the impact on the rest of us.” Read more

Tim Buckley comments in this piece on the case to tax fossil fuel war-profiteers’ financial bonanza. Read more

Senator David Pocock and former Labor foreign minister Bob Carr join Tim Buckley in pressing the government to match nations like the UK and Indonesia and claw back fossil fuel multinationals’ superprofits. Read more

Tim Buckley on the need for tax reform to ensure a community dividend from the superprofits fossil fuel multinationals are making by exploiting Australians’ sovereign resources. Read more

Tim Buckley writes that there’s never been a better time – or a more urgent imperative – to take a cold, hard look at the super-profits currently enjoyed by fossil fuel companies. Read more

“A leading environmental and economic think tank is calling for urgent fossil fuel tax reforms that could add hundreds of billions to government coffers, accelerate decarbonisation, and even help to fix the current energy market crisis.” Read more

The Hunter region could be a major beneficiary from an improved fossil fuel tax and royalty regime, as Tim Buckley discusses in this interview Read more