You pay full price at the pump. Mining giants get billions back.

Every year, Australian mining companies claim $4.5 billion in taxpayer fuel subsidies, nearly half the entire national scheme. Coal mining alone takes $1.4 billion of it! This is public money, handed to some of the most profitable companies in the world, while families pay full price at the pump.

There is a simple fix already gaining momentum inside the government: cap these subsidies at $50 million per company per year. Require the biggest miners to reinvest anything above that cap into clean technology and redirect the savings to what our kids actually need: childcare, schools, healthcare, and cost-of-living relief.

Farmers, tradies, and small businesses receive fuel credits too, and this reform protects every single one of them. The cap only hits the giants at the top. The ones who need it least and claim it most.

It is a fair deal. And our kids deserve it.