Peter Dutton [and Greg Jericho]

“This will secure an additional 10 to 20 per cent of the east coast’s demand – gas which would otherwise be exported.

Gas sold on the domestic market will be de-coupled from overseas markets to protect Australia from international price shocks.

And this will drive down new wholesale domestic gas prices from over $14 per gigajoule to under 10 per gigajoule.

This is just the start.

We will immediately audit development-ready projects with a focus on the southern states.

We will fast-track a decision on Western Australia’s North West Shelf project. [this project is purely for exports to so it will not help gas prices here at all – nor will it raise any PRRT, nor will the companies have to pay any royalties on the gas. Woodside have also proposed using domestic gas to help meet its own energy needs on the project, which means it would not only addabout 12 coal fired power stations emissions into the atmosphere each year, and triple WA gas prices, it would also take gas from the domestic reserve to do so ]

We will halve approval times.

We will defund the activist-led Environmental Defenders Office that has obstructed projects.

We will accelerate new investment in gas projects by reinstating a $300 million Strategic Basin Plan and include gas in the Capacity Investment Scheme.

We will invest $1 billion in a Critical Gas Infrastructure Fund to increase gas pipeline and storage capacity.

We will put in place ‘use it or lose it’ stipulations for gas drilling companies – so offshore gas fields are not locked-up for years.

And we will ensure we will have a fit-for-purpose gas trigger to safeguard supply.

This plan will deliver lower wholesale gas prices which will flow through the economy.

Energy prices will always be lower under a Coalition Government.

A Dutton Coalition Government will also secure our nation’s energy security for decades to come over the longer term.

We will join the other 19 top economies in the world in adopting proven, zero-emissions nuclear power.

This is one of the most visionary and necessary policies put forward in our country’s history. [So visionary and necessary they have stopped talking about it]“