While Australia is one of the world’s top shippers of LNG,most of that gas is produced in Queensland or WA,and is sold on long-term contracts to buyers in Asia.

Dutton’s gas plan will chill investment,warns global energy giant

Global energy major Shell is warning Peter Dutton that his plan to curb Australia’s gas exports will stunt investment and fail to boost supplies of the fuel.

  • Nick Toscano

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Peter Dutton’s net approval rating has fallen neither party seems to be any closer to winning government in its own right.

‘Hard to see how lower pricing will emerge’:Experts doubtful of Dutton’s gas plan

The opposition leader claims his plan will deliver enough gas locally to swiftly cut the wholesale price of $14 a gigajoule to $10.

  • Nick Toscano andMike Foley
Excavators mining rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil in February 2025.

‘Never seen anything like it’:How Trump plans to make Ukraine a ‘province’ of US industry

Europe and Britain will have to foot the bill for rebuilding what remains of the besieged nation,while the US scoops up its chief means of economic recovery.

  • Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Minister for the Environment and Water Tanya Plibersek.

Greenpeace bid at heart of new Woodside North West Shelf delay

Both Greenpeace and the Conservation Council WA want Plibersek to rule on Woodside’s $30 billion Browse gas field development alongside the NWS extension proposal.

  • Hamish Hastie
Shell’s Prelude floating LNG vessel off the WA coast flaring excess gas. WA was the only state to reserve gas for its local market.

In Australia’s energy dilemma,Japan may end up selling us our own gas

The humiliation of Australia,the energy superpower,is now a very real prospect as we face the need to buy gas from our biggest customer.

  • Colin Kruger
Woodside’s North West Shelf gas project in WA.

Federal decision on Woodside’s North West Shelf delayed until after election

The new deadline of May 31 was uploaded to the Department of Climate Change,Energy,the Environment and Water website on federal budget day.

  • Hamish Hastie
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Nationals leader David Littleproud during a doorstop interview in the press gallery at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 24 March 2025.

Nationals leader promises lower power prices within years

The Coalition had avoided making the vow after Labor was burned by its 2022 promise to drop power prices by $275.

  • Olivia Ireland andMike Foley
NSW and Victoria are running out of gas and have little option but to import it.

Minutes to midnight:Why Australia may soon be burning foreign gas

Australia may be one of the biggest sellers of gas overseas but supplies of the fuel are running dangerously low in NSW,Victoria,South Australia and Tasmania.

  • Nick Toscano
Homes and businesses in NSW and Victoria are facing winter gas shortages by 2028.

Bowen fired up for election clash as Labor delivers gas supply boost

Energy Minister Chris Bowen is lashing out at the former Coalition government’s “bin fire” gas policy as he clashes with Peter Dutton on energy.

  • Mike Foley andNick Toscano
A Bass Strait oil rig drilling platform off the Victorian coast.

Gas wars erupt as Coalition pledges to unleash ‘bucketloads’ of fuel

An election fight over the future of Australia’s gas industry is heating up as Labor hits out at the Coalition’s ‘cowboy’ promises to overhaul approvals.

  • Nick Toscano andMike Foley