Further to that campaign, here is some of what David Pocock and Jacqui Lambie had to say, as reported by AAP:
Senator Pocock said Australia didn’t have a gas supply shortage, but a gas export problem with 80 per cent being sent abroad.
“This is a problem that can be solved,” he said on Monday.
“What we haven’t seen is the political will from the major parties who actually say Australians should benefit from Australian gas first before we export.”
Senator Lambie said the nation needed a gas reserve policy of 15 per cent.
“This is not about digging up more gas. This is not about ‘drill, baby drill’. This is about prioritising where our gas goes,” she said.
“The first thing you (government) could be … doing this week, is putting through a gas reserve policy for this country to make energy prices reduced.
“Stop this rubbish of not doing means testing and giving people like me $150 off my electricity bill.”
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