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was the former ceo of the australian institute get out of here no i'm not kidding you now to my understanding he is a lobbyist and i kid you not uh pretty sure you can fact check me on this but for rio tinto wes farmers and uber i'm almost certain are the clients that he represents as a lobbyist someone who is a former greens associate is now lobbying for rio tinto so i mean let's start with the hypocrisy on that the current co-ceo richard dennis with two s's never seen a surname dennis with two s's so i was immediately suspicious Anyway, he's also got a Greens history as an advisor.

And, well, we can also talk about the, with the Australian Institute, we've spoken a little bit about their funding source.

Their mandate, they've been, I think, around for 32 years.

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A coalition of Greens, crossbench MPs and commentators have been campaigning for the government to impose an export tax on Australian gas.

Richard Dennis is co-CEO of the Australia Institute.

If this reservation policy were introduced tomorrow, it wouldn't collect a cent in revenue and all we're being told is it'll put downward pressure on prices, not how much prices will fall, they just might be a bit lower.

He says global supply shocks have generated large profits for foreign gas companies drilling and exporting Australian gas.

Well, Labor has backed away from automatically requiring LNG exporters to reserve twenty percent of their exports for Australians, instead making them reserve up to twenty percent.

Richard Denniss is the co-chief executive officer of the Australia Institute and joins me now.

Richard, welcome to Breakfast.

Good morning.

And unlike most organizations, we, uh, we, we call it as we see it.

We criticize anybody, we praise anybody, we, we back our research.

Richard Denniss, thank you for joining me this morning.

Thank you.

So the Australian Institute is connected to Punters Politics.

He goes on stage with Richard Dennis and talks about tax the gas stuff.

Chanel Contos was the one that brought this manosphere, and she's actually helping out with the algorithm as well, saying that she wants to model o- off China's algorithm.

Yep.

Now, Maria, we're going to do something a little bit different this week in terms of our structure.

In the second half, we'll talk with Richard Dennis and Stuart Jackson.

Both of them have been on the podcast before.

around the question about why the sort of populist left, as it's sometimes called, or why the left generally is not kind of picking up the abandonment of votes from the major parties in the way that the right is cleaning up.

Welcome back.

Now, we've had a bit of a shuffle around in chairs.

It's time to talk about the Greens with Richard Dennis, who's the co-chair of the Australia Institute, and Dr Stuart Jackson, who's at University of Sydney and has done a lot of research on the Greens and I suppose more broadly on the political left.

Is that right, Stuart?

Now, those two positions are about to collide.

Today, co-chief executive of the Australia Institute, Richard Denniss, on koalas, carbon offsets, and whether the Greens are still willing to pick the big fights.

It's Monday, September 7.

Richard, Labor's vote collapsed in Secret Harbour at the by-election, but the Greens didn't pick up those voters.

Why? Why am I so excited about today's episode? Because the media all week has only told one side of the story in regards to the Secret Harbour by-election, the reaction from it, the attacks from Anthony Albanese, the attacks from the Attorney General.

And then we had David Hughes drop a reel waking up to the dangers of the Australian Institute, which is ran by Richard Dennis, who sits on stage with that Punters Politics guy.

[laughs] And then the Australian Institute, a girl named Chanel Kontos, who's an employee of the Australian Institute, stood up in front of the National Press Club this week, starting to talk about the manosphere, right? And then you have s- certain Labor politicians starting to come out and push a digital duty of care bill they wanna get through Parliament.

[laughs] David Hughes' awakening over the last couple of months has been historic, but him calling out the Australian Institute, who I've been calling out now for months, I mean, I think we're winning.

The Australian Institute also had massive persuasion over the Australian government when they were doing the budget.

It's the socialist communist budget.

The Australian Institute, Dennis, Richard Dennis, is a socialist communist hooked in with Punters Politics, David Pocock, the Till's.

They probably all get their same donations from Mike Cannon-Brooks, Twiggy Forrest, and Simon Holmes court.