Twinkle 13 / Resources
Dig it up, ship it out, buy the feed.
A national rant about resources leaving by the shipload for a pittance, a handful of people getting staggeringly rich off them, and the megaphones that wealth then buys, then a hard turn into every deal public, every tonne counted, and an expiry date on the lot.
Open seed
The everyday gripe
Straight to camera: it's our iron, our gas, our coal, our sand. It leaves by the shipload, some of it paying next to nothing back, and the profits don't just buy yachts: they buy ad blitzes, media stakes, podcasts, influencers and lobbyists. One ad blitz killed a mining tax in a matter of weeks, and every treasurer since got the message. That's the raw deal: a few scoundrels cut a sweetheart arrangement once, and now it's treated as tradition that nobody's allowed to touch. The trapdoor is daylight with a clock on it: publish the deals, count the tonnes, and give every arrangement an expiry date so no precedent outlives its excuse. This seed is open: film your own shipload rant.
Description
The one-breath drop
Said before the flush
"Publish every resource deal, count every tonne, and put an expiry date on the precedent." Second breath lives in the room.