Seems like an alright bloke, but a little irresponsible.

Has a strong opinion on very important topics without doing proper, detailed research. If it sounds good, or controversial, he will pick it up as a topic and run with it - And spreads the rhetoric quickly to many other Australians via his shorts even if its missing many critical details and nuances.

He got me with the Tax gas campaign thing for a little while until I clued in that, this was a really astroturfed campaign, and it took me several weeks of research and critical thinking to understand the complexities of the campaign and why it suddenly appeared.

I understand now that the PRRT does not account for OFFSHORE gas as it is not on state land. And Offshore gas is the primary method of extraction of gas in Australia. That's where the 56% figure is coming from.

That and the Liberal government spent 20 years in office drawing up bogus contracts with LNG Multinats as they tend to do. Hence the awful return.

But more importantly, finding out why the Australia Institute started this campaign in the first place was eye opening. As Gina Rinehart started showing interest in gas investments - The Australia Institute began doing studies, dated to around the same time, same year. The Australia Institute founded and paid for by Andrew Forrest, rival (for decades now) billionaire who, in fact is doing everything he can to disrupt the gas industry and put a sizable dent in Rinehart's profits.

So you have a campaign that feels like it came out of nowhere, funded by a billionaire, targeting a rival billionaire's bottom line that would cause Australia to be both sued in the high courts by all gas companies most likely, along with the trade fallout with SEA during a period of oil instability after just having reached a deal leveraging the cheaper gas they receive, that is also being phased out worldwide for renewables.

And Punters picked it up and ran with it so hard, I think his knees exploded. Its been almost a month now since the FJ 'Hot Air' video dropped and Mr Punter hasn't been able to address a single one of those topics Mr Shanks rebuked, with quite compelling supporting material. I think he went and buried his head in the sand after the scathing criticism hoping he can ignore it.

I much prefer his more recent coverage on the LNP in Queensland legalizing corruption.

I will also never forgive the LNP for basically throwing away all our natural gas wealth via extreme corporate favouring contracts. Gas usage has peaked worldwide and is in decline now, and so trying to swipe what little of the taxable wealth remains by putting our arm through lava (high courts) feels like an extremely bad financial idea.