"The description has appeared else where" You're right ttbn, dozens of times on this forum posted by Indyvidual. As a faquenteller yourself you are often guilty of prograkening the English language. Indyvidual suffers from a bad case of eghastormism. With yours and Indy's comprehension of English being so poor, its better you pair make up some words that no one else can understand, they will add boundless strengths to your line of argument.

Paul1405,
Not having a 100% command of a language is as insignificant a problem can be however, a defective mentality dumbed down by non-comprehended education in a bureaudroid causes many innocent to suffer !

To get back to the topic :

The federal government has come as close to nationalising the energy market as is possible to do without actually seizing coal and gas companies’ assets.

Corporate Australia has discovered that Albanese is not the 'different kind' of ALP leader he promised to be, after the Business Council CEO welcomed his intention to embrace free market economics as a critical component of a healthy country. "He understands the fundamentals", she said. He might understand them, but he certainly doesn't abide by them. His price capping is worse than Kevin Rudd's 'resource super profits tax'

"The federal government has come as close to nationalising the energy market as is possible to do without actually seizing coal and gas companies’ assets."

The so called coal and gas assets "owned" by foreign multinationals are in fact natural resources owned by the Australian people. Anyone would think ttbn owned a swag of shares in these multinationals, he wouldn't own a cracker! ttbn the natural resources in Australian are owned by Australian not the ones you suck up to in the boardrooms of New York, London and elsewhere! Don't you forget it!

natural resources owned by the Australian people.
Paul1405,
Yes, Australians who dig them up & those who sat on them for 50,000 years !

Hi Paul1405,
"The so called coal and gas assets 'owned' by foreign multinationals are in fact natural resources owned by the Australian people. Anyone would think ttbn owned a swag of shares in these multinationals, he wouldn't own a cracker! ttbn the natural resources in Australian are owned by Australian not the ones you suck up to in the boardrooms of New York, London and elsewhere! Don't you forget it!"

Sorry Paul, I've got to disagree with this.
You don't get to sell someone a mining lease, allow them to spend billions in extracting the resources, and then get to claim ownership of what they find and extract.
- You can't have your cake and eat it too.

If Australians own these resources, than don't sell the mining leases in the first place.
Why doesn't Adam Bandt go down to BHP or Woodside and tell them we are nationalising your company?
Go ahead and do it.
You'll destroy the country in doing so because that will be the end of Australians investing in the sharemarket and any further foreign investment.
As it is if I buy a mining lease and pay for the right to dig a hole, I should get whatever I find in that hole.
The Australian government thinks it has a right to more and more of whatever is found in that hole, if the person got lucky enough to find anything in that hole (does govt send a check to people invested in companies who get poor assay results or drill a dry well) and after all the money they spent trying to dig the hole.

If they are OUR resources, then go ahead and nationalise the companies.
(Or don't sell the mining leases and dig the holes yourselves)
Mining tax, windfall tax, we want more of what you found in your purchased hole tax, and all for what?
- To spend more money on more immigrants on centrelink?
- Death panels for the oldies?
- Sex change operations for the gender confused?
- Albos lunchbox sandwiches with the crusts cut off?