Fixing Australia’s east coast gas crisis is not only in the national interest, it’s an urgent national priority. COVID-19 has triggered a rethink on many fronts, including how we should use our abundant gas supplies to reduce the cost of energy, support jobs and fast-track our economic recovery once the pandemic subsides.

In moving the country’s growing energy demands to renewables, gas will play a key transitional role to a new energy order, where national policies and priorities, sovereign economic capacity and home-grown goals and prospects are put first.