OPEN LETTER, AUSTRALIAN LEADERSHIP

TO PRIME MINISTER ANTHONY ALBANESE AND OPPOSITION LEADER PETER DUTTON

Australia: Rich in Resources. Poor in Vision. Struggling to Survive.

April 1 2025

Dear Mr Albanese and Mr Dutton,

Australia stands at a critical tipping point — economically, socially, strategically, and morally.
We are a wealthy nation by nature, yet our people suffer a cost-of-living crisis that worsens by the week. We are blessed with natural abundance, yet we behave like a third-world quarry — letting foreign extractors cart off our riches while leaving Australians with nothing but holes in the ground and the scraps of failed policy.

For over a decade, successive governments have failed to act on the OECD’s stark warnings about rising global population, shrinking middle class stability, and resource scarcity. The changing world order demands visionary leadership. Instead, we’ve received lollipops, press releases, and deflections.

It’s time for clarity. It’s time for courage.
It’s time for you — our political leaders — to answer some hard questions.

Norway Has a Sovereign Wealth Fund. We Have Excuses.

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As of March 2025, Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global (the Oil Fund) is worth $1.738 trillion USD, equating to $325,000 per citizen. Its purpose? To invest resource profits to support future generations.
It works. While Norwegians face rising living costs, the country’s strategic management of its resources and wealth has shielded them from widespread economic pain.

Now compare:
Australia – 2023–24 Fiscal Year
- Oil & Gas: $82B in exports → $3.7B in PRRT and royalties (4.5%)
- Coal: $91.4B in exports → $13.4B in royalties (14.6%)
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Our total take on $173.4 billion in resource exports? Just $17.1 billion, or less than 10%.
No national fund. No generational plan. No security for the future.

Meanwhile, Australians pay record energy bills, record rents, and record mortgage stress — while watching foreign companies grow fat off our land.

Five Questions We Demand Answers To:

1. 1. Will you implement a Fair Royalty and Pricing System to stop the giveaway of Australia’s national inheritance?

2. 2. Will you enact a National Domestic Gas Reservation Policy that guarantees affordable energy for Australians before exports?

3. 3. Will you legislate Resource Sovereignty Laws that prevent secret deals and foreign ownership of core assets?

4. 4. Will you establish Sovereign Ownership Requirements to ensure Australian interests retain majority control in vital sectors?

5. 5. Will you create a Sovereign Resources Fund to build generational wealth — like Norway — and stop spending resource profits as if there’s no tomorrow?

Please Don’t Show Up to the Democracy BBQ With a Lollipop.

Australians are tired of band aid solutions dressed up as reform. We don’t need:
- 25c/l fuel excise cuts that blow $6 billion in budget capacity and solve nothing long term
- Temporary gas caps that hide structural failings
- Energy rebates that paper over price gouging
- Migration blame games that pretend cutting builders laborers and tardies will help build more houses
- Empty housing targets (1.2 million homes?) when media reports say none have started
We need honesty. We need action. We need hope.

The Stakes Couldn’t Be Higher.

If this government — or the next — fails to act with clarity and courage, Australia will slide into subservience:
- A poor quarry pit, buying back our own gas at global prices.
- A strategic minnow, dependent on foreign defence and investment.
- A broken economy, where workers, families, and young people are left behind.
Enough. It’s time to fight for Australia’s future — not just manage its decline.
You are the stewards of this nation. What is your plan?
Because right now, the lollipops are not working. © CHATO International Pty Ltd

Sincerely,
Concerned Australians.
And CHATO International — For Vision. For Advocacy. For Action.
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Not electoral material. Authorized by Andrew Dyhin, Gold Coast, for CHATO International Pty Ltd.