MBPP delivers letter supporting a 25% gas tax to Jim Chalmers office
April 28, 2026
Make Big Polluters Pay members deliver our letter to Treasurer Jim Chalmers calling on him to put in place an additional 25% tax on export gas revenue, to ensure that the big gas corporations pay a fair amount for the Australian resources that they extract and profit from. But not to stop there.
The letter asks the Treasurer to address the broken business model that allows the big coal, oil and gas companies to push the costs of their pollution onto our communities, through the damage faced from escalating climate impacts. The Treasurer Jim Chalmers can take this moment to fix the budget black hole of climate adaptation and disaster recovery funding by implementing a Climate Pollution Levy that makes big polluters pay into a Climate Compensation Fund. This fund would be designed to help families ease the cost of living, to support communities and local governments rebuilding after climate disasters here in Australia and the Pacific, and make our communities safer in the face of worsening climate change.
What a legacy that would be for Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
MBPP delivers letter supporting a 25% gas tax to Jim Chalmers office 24 April 2026. Wendy Flannery, Ema Vueti, Pastor Violet (Aunty Vi) (PICQ), Moira Williams (Tipping Point), Nikita White (Amnesty). Photo credit: Moira Williams
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We are a powerful coalition of climate disaster impacted communities, development, faith, climate, youth, social service, First Nations and Pacific organisations working hand in hand with allies.
The Make Big Polluters Pay campaign aims to raise the voices of communities in Australia and the Pacific to share their experiences and highlight how the profit-driven fossil fuel industry is putting the costs of climate change onto communities and not contributing their fair share.
We will fight for compensation for impacted communities and for cost-of-living relief for everyday people from coal, gas and oil corporations, who are most responsible for causing climate change, by campaigning for the government to put a levy on big polluting corporations responsible for climate pollution.
We take up this fight to challenge the current system that is increasing inequality and leading to the destruction of the natural environment that we rely on. Right now a handful of people and corporations are increasing their already inconceivable wealth by exploiting fossil fuels and polluting the environment, harming our communities. Our campaign aims to reverse this unfair situation, support our communities and protect our environment.
About Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action:
Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action (BSCA) is a non-partisan, community organisation made up of bushfire survivors, firefighters and their families working together to call on our leaders to take action on climate change. BSCA formed in 2018, and its founding members were all impacted by bushfires, including Tathra 2018, the Black Summer bushfires in 2019-20, Blue Mountains in 2013, Black Saturday in 2009 and Canberra in 2003.
BSCA has been at the cutting edge of legal reform to reduce climate emissions and hold governments, agencies and companies to account. In 2021 we took the NSW Environment Protection Authority to court challenging them on their lack of action on climate change and won.
Our landmark win in the NSW Land and Environment Court was the first time that an Australian Court ordered a government to take meaningful action on climate change.
Bushfire Survivors and supporters stand together outside Parliament House, Canberra