How many times do we have to say this?

Australia doesn’t have a gas shortage. We have more than enough to supply our needs over and over and over …

The trouble is, we let foreign gas companies export 80% of our gas – more than half of it royalty-free.

QUESTION:

If you’re going to fix a problem you have to diagnose it. Do we have a gas shortage in your view?

CHRIS BOWEN:

We have an issue with domestic gas supply, yes. People say we have plenty of gas in Australia and that is true. A lot gets exported. Those contracts were written 20 years ago, foundational contracts, I’m not going to, I imagine Mr O’Brien work rip them up. That would be unconstitutional for a start and highly irresponsible, what we do need to do is work with the gas companies to get more gas flowing drastically. I think we would agree with that. That’s what we’ve done. That’s why I don’t understand Mr O’Brien’s point that somehow 100 Peta Jules would fix the problem when we, working together have got 640 extra gas supply guaranteed to domestic market your policy focuses on the three exporters in Queensland.