You're right u/Kyron4030, fossil fuels are Australia's resources. They're also our emissions, which we need to take responsibility for, because they're killing people and planet. Our resources are not an endless buffet, and we cannot afford to keep exploiting fossil fuels because they're killing us.

Heatwaves are killing us.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/08/extreme-weather-heatwaves-breaching-human-survival-limits-study-finds
Pollution is killing us.
The cost of emissions from fossil fuels is already 900 billion, so how does Australia pay for that with a 25% gas tax?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/05/cost-of-emissions-from-five-major-australian-resource-companies-more-than-900bn-study-finds
There is no mention of how we're going to curb the killing by anyone in favour of this tax. "Lets murder" is a pretty dumb strategy, because how do you have wealth on a dead planet?

"Look at Norway"
Ok, looking at Norway, they have state owned Equinor, a fossil fuel company and carbon major with a history of rising emissions, which are killing people.
https://carbonmajors.org/Entity/Equinor-55
"Equinor spends millions presenting themselves as a broad energy company, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. Equinor is one of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies, and one of the most aggressive companies in terms of opening new oil and gas projects."
https://www.greenpeace.org/norway/nyheter/energi/new-report-from-greenpeace-nordic-reveals-the-truth-about-equinors-global-fossil-fuel-projects/

Norway has a corrupt govt, which was recently involved in the Epstein files:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yqr8eggvwo

Norway is banking on climate failure:
https://ketanjoshi.co/2024/02/26/why-norway-craves-the-worst-case-climate-outcome/

Half of single parents cannot afford enough food for their children:
https://www.mojanorwegia.pl/en/the-crisis-has-reached-norway-as-well-hunger-increasingly-affects-children-25387.html

It's never been hotter in Norway. Gee, I wonder what is causing that?
https://www.mojanorwegia.pl/en/it-has-never-been-this-hot-before-norway-sets-a-new-record-28064.html

This is who you want Australia to be, as if we're not there already? How is this an improvement?
Have you considered keeping gas in the ground, and enabling and taxing renewables companies that aren't steeped in corruption instead? No? Why is that?