Australia is one of the world’s largest gas exporters. We send around 80 per cent of our gas overseas.

More than half of the gas we export doesn’t even earn royalties or resources rent tax. We are literally giving away our gas resources.

None of that has stopped the gas industry from trying to convince us for the past few years that a gas shortage is imminent.

Instead of taking responsibility for the problem it is causing, it has relentlessly attacked the Victorian Labor government.

It characterises the state’s banning of gas connections to new homes as “demonisation of gas”, when in fact the government’s attempt to reduce dependence on gas is exactly the right response to an industry-engineered scarcity and price gouging.

All of the major political candidates at this election have acknowledged that there’s “no gas supply shortage in Australia”.

Labor’s Energy Minister Chris Bowen, who

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