Prefacing this question with the fact that we do not need to open up any more gas fields in Australia to serve domestic needs. We can meet export contracts and domestic needs with what we already have. There is no shortage.

Q: You made it clear that gas is an important part of our energy transition. We’ve heaps of gas under the ground in Australia, yet we’re facing a shortage on the east coast, within a few years, that’s according to AEMO. After the election, if you’re successful, what is your message to the states in terms of boosting gas supplies, getting more gas out of the ground for the domestic supplies we so need?

Albanese:

We need more supply (we don’t) it needs to be done in a sustainable way, but we have also, you know, one of the things had happened during this election campaign is there’s been a range of things announced by Peter Dutton that are happening.

So, he’s announced for example housing infrastructure funding that he announced, I think, here a while ago. We’re doing it. Like it’s rolling out in partnership. We have had two rounds of that program he either doesn’t know exist, or pretends he doesn’t know exists. On gas, on the day of the election, in 2022, gas was $34, today it’s $13. We have mandated the gas code of conduct. We changed the Domestic Gas Security to ensure that we can intervene to ensure supply domestically. We’ve put in place all of those measures, all Peter Dutton has, a bit like his defence policy, is a blank media release with a headline on the top, and no detail.