Soon after his election victory in May 2025, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese spoke of “doing things the Australian way, not looking towards any other method or ideology from overseas”.

He summarised this approach as “progressive patriotism”.

Progressive patriotism should be urgently applied to gas policy in Australia.

Despite being one of the world’s largest exporters of gas it is regularly suggested that Australia experiences “shortages” of gas, domestic energy prices are high, and little tax is paid by the multinational companies that export Australian gas.

This brief highlights 3 key problems in Australian gas policy and proposes 3 solutions.