{"id":560338,"date":"2026-03-24T04:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/560338\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T04:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:03:11","slug":"ursula-von-der-leyen-meets-prime-minister-anthony-albanese-in-canberra-question-time-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/560338\/","title":{"rendered":"Ursula von der Leyen meets Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Canberra; Question Time returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, Resources Minister Madeleine King has remained silent on a potential move by the government to institute a windfall tax on gas profits, after it was reported the prime minister\u2019s department ordered modelling of the policy last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur gas policies haven\u2019t changed, and I\u2019ve seen that there\u2019s a lot of stuff circling around, a lot of popular &#8230; TikTok videos. That\u2019s no way to design tax policy,\u201d King told journalists at Parliament House in Canberra.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Resources Minister Madeleine King.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/f31ad0772846ae13c6a039282efdf7c77fb59724.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Resources Minister Madeleine King.Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n<p>Her comment appeared to be a reference to Greens and crossbench MPs, who had taken to social media to barrack for the creation of the levy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will work through any process. What I\u2019m really focused on now is the work on the gas reservation scheme &#8230; to make sure that works for the Australian people, for Australia industry, but also, really importantly, to maintain our position as that reliable exporter,\u201d King said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, Resources Minister Madeleine King has remained silent on a potential move by the government to institute a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-560338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}