Australia’s new climate politics will reshape its entire economy with Adam Bandt & David Pocock
Zero: The Climate Race
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Australia Is a Great Example of a Diversified Economy
In Australia 27 big gas corporations in one year bought in 77 billion dollars Australian of revenue in one year and paid zero dollars tax on it. Unlike Norway where they have at least a tax system that enables them to gain some wealth from the fossil fuels, Australia's not even getting that. There's enormous enormous state capture of the political parties in Australia by these big gas and coal corporations but it actually doesn't deliver it back to the economy what a lot of people might think it does. We are pretty blessed here in this country with sun and wind and an advanced manufacturing capacity and intellectual capacity we can sell things to other countries other than coal and gas.
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