Get the tax before it's too late

Michael West’s article highlights the failure of successive governments to ensure an adequate return for this country’s resources. I felt outraged to read about the potential returns for our gas from the petroleum resource rent tax. Inadequate returns now will have potentially disastrous consequences for future generations. There were mutterings about changes to the PRRT in the budget; too hard, maybe? Attempts to justify inaction on this inadequate tax gathering are an even greater outrage. Only when Australians understand how little they are getting for valuable finite resources and they call for action will anything change. Sad to say, I don’t believe we can rely on our politicians to look after anybody but themselves.

– Robert Gubbins, Ashfield, NSW