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

Progressive patriotism should be urgently applied to gas policy in Australia. Even though we are 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.